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SPL is not extended maternity leave and it is not a generous gesture you can opt out of offering. It is a statutory right that lets eligible parents carve up the mother's or primary adopter's untaken leave between them, in blocks, across the first year. Before you draft a single policy line, get the mental model straight: who is eligible, what gets shared, and how the curtailment notice triggers the whole machinery.

How Shared Parental Leave works

Concept guide explaining curtailment, eligibility, and the relationship between maternity, adoption and SPL entitlements.

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