'I made a stronger connection with my child': What the UK can learn from Iceland's childcare The UK is staring down the barrel of a childcare crisis. Elsewhere, countries are tackling parental inequality by championing progressive parental leave models⤵️
But outside of the UK, several countries including Canada and Denmark are tackling inequality between working parents at source by championing progressive parental leave models.implemented a “use it or lose it” scheme, favoured by gender equality campaigners, to encourage more fathers to take leave after the birth of a child.The new system offers both parents six months parental leave, with just six weeks being transferable between them.
Extended maternity leave without an equivalent option for fathers, could, by some measures, actually be– forcing them into choosing between family or career, and placing them in the role of de facto primary carer. This resonates for Mr Jonsson. “After getting up to speed, such as knowing a baby can take up an hour to eat breakfast, it made me realise that new parents really need the time to get used to all of these routines and that is not possible if you have a full-time job,” he said.
The UK’s own childcare crisis should not be viewed in isolation. Increasing inequality between working parents is exacerbated by a shared parental leave provision widely considered to be a resounding failure since its launch in 2015 by then deputy prime minister Nick Clegg. Both statutory paternity leave and shared parental leave payments are less than £150 per week, making the scheme completely inaccessible for many families due to the punitive financial impact of a father – still overwhelmingly the breadwinner in heterosexual relationships – taking leave on a family’s bottom line.
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