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âWithout meaningful reforms, many dads wonât be able to afford to take time off work when their kids are born. And women will continue to shoulder an unequal share of care and be penalised.â
A group of organisations, including Maternity Action, the Fawcett Society, the National Childbirth Trust (NCT), the Royal College of Midwives, the TUC and the Womenâs Budget Group, are increasing pressure on ministers, accusing them of âdragging their feetâ on a promised consultation on the policy. Evaluation began in July 2018 and a consultation was due to report in 2019, but it now only promised âlater this yearâ.
Shared parental leave: scrap ‘deeply flawed’ policy, say campaigners Alexandra Topping © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: akurtz/Getty Images
Shared parental leave (SPL) is a “deeply flawed and chronically failing policy” that should be scrapped and replaced with a “use it or lose it” period of paid leave for mothers and fathers, according to campaigners, trade unions and economists.
Six years after the coalition government introduced shared parental leave as a flagship policy to transform gender equality and make life easier for families, take-up remains low.
“We need to urgently overhaul the parental leave system, not just tinker around the edges. Both parents should have time to care and bond with their baby, without having to transfer leave between them,” said the Trades Union Congress (TUC) secretary general, Frances O’Grady, adding that the UK had some of the worst-paid maternity and paternity leave.
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The U-turn came after the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said it’s now “preferable” for pregnant women in the UK to be offered the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna vaccines, where available.
Before this, the only people able to have the jab during pregnancy in the UK were those considered high risk, either because of an underlying health condition or their job (for example, being a frontline worker). This was because there was “insufficient evidence” at the time to recommend routine use of Covid-19 vaccines during pregnancy.
So, what changed? Well, while clinical trials testing the vaccine in pregnant women are only just starting, real-world data from the United States showed that around 90,000 pregnant women had been vaccinated, mainly with mRNA vaccines by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, without any safety concerns raised.
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