Neonatal care leave and neonatal care pay
The final versions of the Neonatal Care Leave and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2025 and Statutory Neonatal Care Pay (General) Regulations 2025 have been published. There are no changes in this policy from the previous draft version.
The final version of the Neonatal Care Leave and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2025 has been published. There are no changes in this guide from the previous draft version.
Updated to reflect that the Regulations setting out the detail of neonatal care leave and pay have been finalised.
While the introduction of neonatal care leave and pay is the key change for HR professionals to get to grips with, there are other employment law changes in April 2025. These include increases to the national minimum wage rates; a rise in statutory redundancy pay; and the uprating of statutory sick pay and family-related pay.
Updated to set out the protected period for employees on neonatal care leave, as well as those who have recently returned from a continuous period of six weeks or more neonatal care leave.
This guide highlights the right of employees who have informed their employer that they are pregnant, as well as those who are made redundant during, and for a prescribed period after, certain types of family-friendly leave to be offered suitable alternative employment.
To help HR professionals to prepare for the new right to take additional time off if their child requires neonatal care, this webinar guides you through how this new type of statutory leave will operate in practice and the impact it will have on how employers support the parents of premature or ill babies.
Updated to include new details on neonatal care leave (for a child born on or after 6 April 2025).
A new right for parents to take up to 12 weeks' neonatal care leave if their baby requires medical or palliative care is introduced on 6 April 2025. Now that the Government has published the remaining legislation needed to bring the new right into force, we set out what HR professionals need to know about neonatal care leave.
Updated to reflect an employee's entitlement to neonatal care leave for babies born on or after 6 April 2025.
HR and legal information and guidance relating to neonatal care leave and neonatal care pay.