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Model adoption policy
| Purpose: | Purpose: To explain the arrangements for adoption leave and pay for employees who are adopting, fostering or having a child through a surrogate mother. |
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| Scope of application: | Scope of application: Chambers employees. It doesn’t apply to barristers, pupils, contractors or agency workers. |
| Issued by: | Chambers Management Panel |
| First reviewed: | 16/09/2025 |
This policy applies to employees only. It doesn’t apply to barristers, pupil barristers, contractors or agency workers. It explains the arrangements for adoption leave and pay for employees who are adopting, fostering or having a child through a surrogate mother.
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This document has been prepared by the Bar Council to assist barristers on matters of professional conduct and ethics. It is not “guidance” for the purposes of the BSB Handbook I6.4, and neither the BSB nor a disciplinary tribunal nor the Legal Ombudsman is bound by any views or advice expressed in it. It does not comprise – and cannot be relied on as giving – legal advice. It has been prepared in good faith, but neither the Bar Council nor any of the individuals responsible for or involved in its preparation accept any responsibility or liability for anything done in reliance on it. For fuller information as to the status and effect of this document, please see here.