Maternity & Childcare Policy Survey - Sample

2011 Report: ready now

The Maternity & Childcare Policy Survey Report begins with a summary of the survey results, highlighting the main findings and showing trends based on comparisons with previous surveys.

Examples of summary pages from this year’s report are:

Women Taking Maternity Leave And Returning To Work

On average, 7.6% of the female workforce take maternity leave in any year.  Of the full-time employees going on maternity leave 94% return to work: 50% returning full-time and 50% returning part-time. 

* The figures for rates of return in this and previous maternity reports are:

Year	'11	'09	'07	'05	'03	'01	'99	'97	'95
Returners (%)	94	95	95	90	95	89	84	80	72

The picture for this and previous years is:

 

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Reasons for Offering Additional Company Maternity Pay

	2011	2009	2007	2005	2003
Benefit to employees (%)	86	84	91	89	93
Incentive to return (%)	50	55	60	67	70
Aid to recruitment  (%)	53	48	51	15	19
Company culture (%)	44	48	45	--	--

Typical pages are:

Paternity Pay

The companies in the survey give paternity pay as follows:

Statutory paternity pay	58  companies (39.5%)
Additional paternity pay	89  companies (60.5%)

 

 

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Policy documents supplied by participants are collated in an appendix to the report, and the full list of participants is also included.