‘Jack’s Law’ | Parental bereavement leave to be rolled out in April

The UK is set to introduce ‘Jack’s Law’ – a new legal right entitling grieving parents to paid parental bereavement leave – which will come into effect in April this year.

The new legal right entitles working parents, who suffer the devastating loss of a child under the age of 18, to two weeks paid bereavement leave – something that isn’t currently an automatic right.

The regulations will be known as ‘Jack’s Law’ in memory of Jack Herd, who drowned in 2010 aged 23-months-old. His mother has been actively campaigning on the isssue of parental bereavement leave since her son drowned in 2010 – iNews reported.

At the time of Jack’s death, his mother said she found out the law only entitled his father three days off to grieve. One of those days had to be the funeral.