Hugh's Law | Campaigners urge firms to offer paid leave to parents of critically ill children

More than 40 UK businesses have committed to offering their employees paid leave support if a child becomes critically ill by enacting Hugh’s Law. 

Hugh’s Law ensures that parents of critically ill children are not forced out of work, into debt or into crisis when their child requires life-saving treatment. 

This includes life-threatening illness, or injury involving critical care, a sudden onset of a condition involving specialist care or ongoing supervision by specialist clinician. 

Ceri and Frances Menai-Davis, of the Hugh’s Law campaign, lost their six year old son Hugh in 2021 following a 10 month battle with cancer. As they sat by Hugh’s bedside, day in day out, they were shocked to find out a lack of statutory support available for parents who are plunged into a "living nightmare".