A new legal right to bereavement leave will extend beyond immediate family relationships to include step-relatives and half-relatives.
The provision will also cover people connected through foster care, kinship care and adoption. This broadens the relationships recognised under the new right when someone experiences a bereavement.
The law will additionally include early pregnancy loss, meaning the circumstances covered will not be limited to the death of a family member. The supplied details do not specify when the right will take effect or set out the length of leave available.
The measure is intended to recognise a wider range of family and caring relationships, including those formed through blended families, fostering, adoption and kinship care. Further details about how the right will operate were not provided.
