Adoptive Parents - Rights to Leave and Pay

Further information

Both employers and employees can use the DTI website and its interactive guidance site TIGER to work out entitlements to paternity and adoption leave and pay.

The guidance booklets mentioned in this document are available from the DTI Publications Orderline on 0870 1502 500 or can be ordered over the Internet.

Employers can get more information on SAP and SPP from the Inland Revenue who produce an employer's helpbook E16 Pay and time off work for adoptive parents (copies available from 08457 64 66 46). For additional help, employers may phone the employers' helpline on 08457 14 31 43.

Further advice on employment law matters, including the new rights, as well as good practice guidance is available from ACAS.

Small businesses can register at businesslink to receive reminders and updates about changes to employment law. Information is also available on a wide range of help for small businesses.

Information on all aspects of employment legislation can usually be provided by accountants, citizens advice bureaux, employer organisations, legal advisers, low pay units, trade unions and a number of private sector and voluntary bodies.