00:00I want to give all families a better start in life.
00:03And so what we have at the minute, I think it's confusing.
00:06Eight different parental leave entitlements for business in particular.
00:09They say to me they don't know exactly what they should or shouldn't be doing and offering on that.
00:14We're not particularly supportive compared to other countries.
00:17And yet, you know, one in three new dads takes no paternity leave at all.
00:21Shared parental leave was introduced. Hardly anyone is taking that.
00:23So I want to look for the first time in decades at the overall system of parental leave.
00:28Holistically, I want to work with business in terms of how we might reform that going forward.
00:32But I also want to let's acknowledge that, you know, self-employment is a much bigger part of the labour market these days.
00:37How could it work for self-employed people? Families are different.
00:40Kinship care is a much bigger part of life today. How could we reflect that?
00:43So it's a really big, serious piece of work, which I hope will give us a set of proposals.
00:48We can get a big coalition around and fundamentally allow people to spend a bit more time with new children at a really key part of their lives.
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