Guidance

Neonatal care leave and pay: employers' technical guide

Technical guidance for employers who are developing or updating their policies on neonatal care leave and pay.

• From: Department for Business and Trade
• Published: 22 August 2025

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Neonatal care leave and pay: employers' technical guidance

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Details

This technical guide for employers adds to the existing information for neonatal care leave and pay for employers.

This guide covers some of the more technical aspects of the entitlement to accompany the existing guidance. It covers complex situations in greater detail, such as:

• what happens if there are multiple children in neonatal care
• if a child is readmitted into neonatal care
• eligibility
• fitting the entitlement around other types of family-related leave

Published 22 August 2025