"The Government’s decision to close schools will have a massive impact on working parents," Peter Cheese, chief executive of HR body CIPD, said. This is known as dependant leave," said Tracey Moss, employment expert at Citizens Advice. If a day or two is not quite enough, you can request more time off in advance - in what's known as unpaid parental leave. The limit on how much parental leave each parent can take a year is four weeks. You must take parental leave as whole weeks rather than odd days, unless your employer agrees otherwise or your child is disabled.

Source: Daily Mirror March 18, 2020 17:27 UTC