The Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Parental Orders and Prospective Adopters) Regulations 2014
Part 2 of these Regulations amends the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (General) Regulations (S.I. 2002/2822) (“the Pay Regulations”) to make provision for a new right to statutory adoption pay for local authority foster parents who are prospective adopters if they have been notified that a child is to be placed with them under section 22C of the Children Act 1989 following consideration in accordance with section 22C(9B)(c) of that Act. The amendments made also make provision for new rights to statutory paternity pay to the spouses, civil partners and partners of these prospective adopters.