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Form for mother to provide declaration of consent and entitlement for their partner to take shared parental leave

Shared parental leave requires formal declarations to confirm consent and entitlement before leave can be taken. This guide explains how to use a declaration form to confirm a mother’s consent and enable her partner to take shared parental leave correctly.

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By Stephen Simpson, Brightmine Principal Editor

When to use this model shared parental leave form

Use this model form to allow a mother to provide a declaration of consent and entitlement for their partner to take shared parental leave. The form should be used where the mother is not planning to take any shared parental leave, but is curtailing their maternity leave to allow their partner to take shared parental leave.

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Stephen Simpson, Acting content manager - employment law and compliance at Brightmine

Stephen Simpson
Principal Editor – Employment Law and Compliance, Brightmine

Stephen is a principal editor who has worked on the Brightmine employment law and leading practice resources for over 20 years. After growing up in Northern Ireland in the 1980s, he trained as a solicitor in England in the 1990s but soon moved into legal publishing. He was among the first recruits to Brightmine in the year before it was launched as XpertHR in 2002.

Stephen has worked on a wide range of employment law and leading practice resources, including overseeing the creation and expansion of the HR templates resource types (Policies and procedures, Letters and forms, and Contract clauses). He has written up over 1,000 reports on employment law cases and created practical guidance on a range of HR issues for the Commentary & insights tool. He also had a stint working on Personnel Today.

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