{"id":1570,"date":"2024-03-28T17:50:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T17:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/key-hr-facts\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:24:13","slug":"bereavement-leave-pay-for-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/key-hr-facts\/bereavement-leave-pay-for-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Bereavement Leave & Pay for Parents ~\/"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[Updated 07\/04\/2026]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a relatively new statutory right for up to 2 weeks leave and pay in such sorrowful cirumstances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bereavement Leave<\/strong> – a statutory right<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A parent whose child has died when aged under 18 or was stillborn (after 24 weeks of pregnancy) is entitled to take special statutory paid leave. That can be taken for either two weeks or as two separate weeks. If preferred, you need only take one week\u2019s leave in total. No minimum service is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leave may start on or after the child’s death or stillbirth – provided you inform your manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bereavement leave can be combined with other leave such as maternity or parental leave. However, please note that all of your entitlement to statutory bereavement leave has to be taken completely within 56 weeks of the death or stillbirth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During such leave, the parent is entitled to any due pay increase, accrual of holiday entitlement and the right to return to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The notice required to be given to your manager varies according to when you wish to take the leave:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 to take the leave between 0 to 8 weeks after the child\u2019s death or stillbirth \u2013 inform your manager before the time you would normally start work on the first day of the week or weeks you want to be off work;
\u2013 to take the leave between 9 and 56 weeks after the child\u2019s death or stillbirth \u2013 give your manager at least one week\u2019s notice of the week(s) you wish to take off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If another event occurs that necessitates you taking another type of statutory leave, while on bereavement leave, the remaining balance of your bereavement leave should be taken after the other leave has ended<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bereavement Pay<\/strong> ~<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

From 06\/04\/2026 the rate of pay for Statutory\u00a0Parental Bereavement leave is \u00a3194.32 (\u00a3184.03). However, if you earn less than that amount, payment will be made at 90% of your average weekly earnings. That is subject to you earning on average \u00a3123 or more per week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note:<\/strong> There are conditions about who is eligible to take the leave and requirements to provide certain information for paid leave etc.. For example if you are an adoptive parent, you may be eligible for bereavement leave and pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For fuller details of the right to statutory bereavement leave\/pay for parents \u2013 see the Government\u2019s information via this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[Updated 07\/04\/2026] This is a relatively new statutory right for up to 2 weeks leave and pay in such sorrowful cirumstances. Bereavement Leave – a statutory right A parent whose child has died when aged under 18 or was stillborn (after 24 weeks of pregnancy) is entitled to take special statutory paid leave. That can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leave-for-family-issues-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/key-hr-facts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/key-hr-facts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/key-hr-facts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/key-hr-facts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/key-hr-facts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/key-hr-facts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473,"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/key-hr-facts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/key-hr-facts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/key-hr-facts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/key-hr-facts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}