Part 1: Neonatal Care Leave Section 80EF: Neonatal Care Leave
Section 80EF requires the Secretary of State to make regulations to give an entitlement to time off work to employed parents with responsibility for a child who is receiving, or has received, neonatal care. It provides for conditions for that entitlement to be defined in regulations by reference to the employee having a parental or other personal relationship with the child.
	Regulations must set the duration of leave and how and when the leave can be taken. The duration of leave must be at least one week; and the Regulations must establish a period within which the leave may be taken, which must be a minimum of 68 weeks starting from the date the child’s birth.
	Regulations must provide that an employee is entitled to leave only if the neonatal care continues without interruption for a period of at least seven days beginning with the day after the day on which the care starts.
	Neonatal care is defined as care of a medical or palliative kind specified in the regulations and must start before the end of a period of 28 days beginning with the day after the date of the child’s birth. A week is any seven-day period.