FOI 152/25 Parental leave

Enquiry Reference:  152- 25                                                                         

I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request. Below is your request and our response.

Your parental leave policies, including paternity and maternity leave. If you have different policies for police officers and staff, please include both separately.

Answer

We have looked at the content of your request and must advise you that we consider the Freedom of information Act 2000 Exemption 21 (Information Accessible by other means) is engaged in relation to this request this is a class based and absolute exemption, requiring no prejudice or public interest to be considered.

If you visit the Cleveland Police website, https://www.cleveland.police.uk/ and in the search function type in Parental Leave Policy it will open a page with the all the information Cleveland police publish on this matter.

1) For the most recent three years you have data, a) How many officers were eligible for paternity leave? And b) How many officers took paternity leave, and for how many weeks on average?

Answer

As of financial year end for each year, that was:
March 2022 – 1450 Officers

March 2023 – 1493 Officers

March 2024 – 1528 Officers

99 Officers took paternity leave between 1^st January 2022 and 31^st December 2024, taking an average of 9.6 days.

2) If you have this data, what % of officers who have resigned voluntarily over the last three years cited the impact of their job on their family as a reason?

Answer

Since November 22 (we are unable to go further back than this), Officers cited the following leaving reasons:

Please note that all statistical data supplied in relation to Freedom of Information requests is a snapshot of data held at the time the request was received by the Freedom of Information office and is subject to constant change/updates.

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Yours sincerely

Information Rights Decision Maker