Source · Select Committees · Women and Equalities Committee
Recommendation 20
20
Deferred
Require Government review to consider additional financial support for parents of multiple births
Recommendation
Our paid parental leave system provides comparatively very poorly for parents of multiple births, who face unique financial, practical and emotional impacts in caring for their babies and young children and juggling work commitments. The Government’s review must consider options to mitigate these impacts through additional financial support. It should draw on lessons from overseas systems, including in Sweden, France and Spain, which provide extra paid leave for multiple births. (Recommendation, Paragraph 109) Modelling the costs and benefits and measuring the success of reforms
Government Response Summary
The government thanks the committee for highlighting challenges for parents of multiple births and states that the parental leave and pay review will consider these situations, including international systems, to better support all working families.
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
We thank the committee for highlighting that there are groups of parents who face challenges that are not currently reflected in, or supported by, the parental leave system. The parental leave and pay review will consider working families in these situations, including considering the international parental leave systems highlighted by the committee, to ensure the parental leave system best supports all types of working families. Furthermore, as highlighted previously, fairness and equality will be a cross-cutting consideration of the parental leave and pay review, including fairness between different types of parents.