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Paternity/Maternity Leave - 045/20

Date Responded 29 January 2020

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

  1. How many police officers started a period of (a) maternity leave (b) paternity leave in 2018/19 financial year.
  2. How many police staff employees started a period of (a) maternity leave (b) paternity leave in 2018/19 financial year.
  3. Your police force’s policy on maternity and paternity leave for police staff employees.

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Peoples Services Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

  1. In the 2018/19 financial year 18 Officers started a period of Maternity leave and 0 Officers started Paternity leave
  2. In the 2018/19 financial year 9 Police Staff started a period of Maternity leave and 0 Police Staff members started Paternity Leave.
  3. The forces prodedure on Maternity and Paternity leave can be found attached

Paternity/Maternity Leave - 045/20

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

The information we have supplied to you is likely to contain intellectual property rights of Northumbria Police. Your use of the information must be strictly in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended) or such other applicable legislation. In particular, you must not re-use this information for any commercial purpose.

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