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Statutory Neonatal Care Pay: weekly rate

The weekly amount of Statutory Neonatal Care Pay, or 90% of earnings if that is less.

£194.32per week

Corroborated Statutory Instrument Great Britain in force since 2026-04-06

Checked against its sources: statute verified 2026-09-21·guidance verified 2026-09-21

Scope: Lower of £194.32 or 90% of normal weekly earnings. The same standard rate as Statutory Paternity, Shared Parental, Adoption and Parental Bereavement Pay. On 2026-07-29 the GOV.UK neonatal-care-pay-leave page still printed £187.18, four months after the Order — guidance is corroboration, not authority (spec §2.2), which is why the employers' rates page is the B-source here.

Current sources

Source A · Legislationhttps://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/148/made (SI 2026/148 art 10(4): in regulation 25(1)(a) of the Statutory Neonatal Care Pay (General) Regulations 2025, for “£187.18” substitute “£194.32”; art 1(3)(c) commences art 10 on 6 April 2026)

retrieved 2026-07-08

Source B · Official guidancehttps://www.gov.uk/guidance/rates-and-thresholds-for-employers-2026-to-2027 ("Statutory Neonatal Care Pay (SNCP) — weekly rate £194.32 or 90% of the employee's average weekly earnings, whichever is lower")

retrieved 2026-07-29

History

Value	From	To	Status	Sources
£194.32	2026-04-06	—	Corroborated	Legislation: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/148/made (SI 2026/148 art 10(4): in regulation 25(1)(a) of the Statutory Neonatal Care Pay (General) Regulations 2025, for “£187.18” substitute “£194.32”; art 1(3)(c) commences art 10 on 6 April 2026) retrieved 2026-07-08 Official guidance: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rates-and-thresholds-for-employers-2026-to-2027 ("Statutory Neonatal Care Pay (SNCP) — weekly rate £194.32 or 90% of the employee's average weekly earnings, whichever is lower") retrieved 2026-07-29
£187.18	2025-04-06	2026-04-05	Primary source only	Legislation: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/376/made (SI 2025/376 reg 25(1)(a) as made: "the smaller of the following two amounts — (a) £187.18; (b) 90% of the normal weekly earnings"; in force 6 April 2025) retrieved 2026-09-08

Receipt

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Compiler's notes

Named from source by the instrument finder (WS6-INSTRUMENT-MAP.md, 2026-09-08): the current-view Regulations carry an F-note citing SI 2026/148 art 10(4); the Order's as-made text yields the substitution the build re-derives (extract.PROSE_SINGLE), and the 2025 Regulations as made attest the prior value and its start date.