This document is described as a more specialised and detailed version of the guidance issued previously, and BIS see it as particularly relevant to HR departments and lawyers.
BIS have also confirmed that further guidance materials on the package of legislative changes, including the extension of adoption leave and pay to intended parents in surrogacy arrangements, and prospective adopters in fostering for adoption arrangements, will be published in due course.
HMRC Guide to Shared Parental Leave and Pay
29 September 2014
HMRC have issued a new Developers Guide to Shared Parental Leave and Pay along with test data.
The new updated guide and test data are primarily intended for developers, but the detailed information in the guide in particular may be of interest to other readers.
Shared Parental Leave and Pay factsheet updated
2 October 2014
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and HMRC have now agreed the standard abbreviations which will be used for Shared Parental Leave (SPL) and Shared Parental Pay (ShPP).
The CIPP factsheet on this topic has now been updated to reflect this change and is available here .
Shared parental leave and pay: Northern Ireland news
13 October 2014
Further news has been issued about the likely timing of the introduction of Shared Parental Leave and Pay in Northern Ireland.
Great British legislation covers employees who work in England, Scotland and Wales, and as previously confirmed this will apply in respect of births due on or after 6 th April 2015. Separate legislation is required for employees who work in Northern Ireland and as yet no legislation has been passed by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The current plan is that the primary legislation will be in place by the beginning of next year followed closely by the secondary legislation to meet an April 2015 delivery.
HMRC have stated that this means that as the Northern Irish legislation is not in the same advanced state as Great British legislation the new arrangements for Shared Parental Leave and Pay will not be available in Northern Ireland for early births (i.e. babies who are due on or after 5th April 2015 but are born early).
HMRC add:
In addition there is a very small chance that the Northern Irish legislation will not be in place for Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) (and the supporting changes to Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP)) to come in to effect in Northern Ireland from 5th April 2015. In the unlikely event that this delay occurs then:
CIPP Policy News Journal
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