Shared parental leave? School staff

Can someone tell me more about this? I work as support staff at a school. My partner works in sales. How does would it work? I have heard of school staff ‘going back to work’ during the school holidays during mat leave (ie not really working as its holidays), getting paid full, and partner gets the time off, then i go back on mat leave when the holidays end. Is this how it works? Is this legit? Is this something that often happens often with school staff? I don’t know anyone who’s done it. Is it frowned upon? I don’t want to take the mickey, i love my job and workplace, but if it’s a legitimate thing that people do then i would of course consider it. Any info would be helpful!!

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I am currently looking into this too! I'm going to contact the NEU so that I know my rights inside out before I approach my school with it, but here's what they have to say on their website: https://neu.org.uk/advice/your-rights-work/family-rights/shared-parental-leave-and-pay

I will be doing it - there are services that sort the paper work for a small fee. My colleague has just done it and got paid 9 weeks in full during holiday time - it’s perfectly fine to do, just a loophole that they didn’t consider when it comes to school staff

Thank you both. I will seriously consider it but need to do some proper research!

There is a teacher mum group within Peanut that has a thread in this with lots of good advice.

@Sarah thanks just found it and posted!

Don’t think of it as taking the mickey! Think of it as taking holiday pay that we don’t get due to working in a school!

@Kristie you are right :) i’ve just not heard of anyone doing it before (i work at a school with mostly younger staff under age 25) so it’s taken me by surprise as a concept!!

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