LRD guides and handbook October 2014

Leave and pay for working parents - a guide for trade union reps

Chapter 4

Fostering to adopt — new rights

[ch 4: page 38]

The Children and Families Act 2104 has introduced new rights to leave and pay for those fostering to adopt from 5 April 2014 provided that they:

• are a local authority foster parent;

• have been approved as a prospective adopter;

• have been notified by a local authority in England that a child is to be, or is expected to be, placed with the employee under section 22C of the Children Act 1989.