Details of Activity
Providing quality maternity, adoption or paternity options for its staff was clearly an important goal for the School, which set up confidential parental entitlement meetings. These one to one confidential meetings were set up to explain parental leave policies and discuss whether there needed to be any adjustment to hours of work when staff were to return.
Outcomes
Following feedback from the confidential parental entitlement meetings, an improvement in paid paternity leave entitlement was introduced in December 2013. The increase in paternity leave entitlement gained positive feedback from parents and carers in focus groups, and the submission notes that none of the six members of staff who took paternity leave, had left the School during or after their leave.