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Parental leave is a new right to take time off work to care for a child.
It is available to employees who have worked for their current employer for a least a year by the time they want to take the leave. Each parent is eligible for 13 weeks' leave, which can be taken at any time until the fifth birthday of the child in question, or for five years after the date of placement in the case of an adoption. Both parents are able to take 13 weeks, even if both of them are not living with the child at the time. However, they do have to have formal parental responsibility for the child, and they have to use the leave to care for their child. In the case of parents of a child who receives disability living allowance, the leave can be taken up to the child's eighteenth birthday.