Ten years on, it’s only used by a small percentage of parents – and many fathers haven’t even heard of the policy ‘Lost decade’ of progress after UK introduced shared parental leave, say experts Jo Swinson was eight months pregnant when she announced plans for shared parental leave to revolutionise the lives of parents at home and at work. The moment her “baby in government” came into force in 2015 was emotional, she told the Guardian. Little wonder, then, that she stops short of calling the policy a failure. It is difficult to be brutally honest about your offspring. And shared parental leave was, as she says, a first step. Thousands of families have been able to share leave as a result of the measures she helped usher in, and their lives have been changed for the better. Continue reading...