Maternity Rights Advice Service

The NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Women’s Health and Maternity Programme have launched a dedicated Maternity Rights Advice Service for women and families across the Cheshire and Merseyside region.

In partnership with Maternity Action, this service provides free and confidential advice on rights at work and maternity pay and benefits for pregnant women and new parents who are living, working, or booked for maternity care across the Cheshire and Merseyside region.

How to get help and advice

They can provide advice on a range of issues including maternity rights at work and maternity pay and benefits for pregnant women and new parents.

Have you just found out that you are pregnant and want to know what your rights are at work?
Wondering which benefits you could claim while you are pregnant or once your baby is born?
Do you think that you are being discriminated against at work because of your pregnancy or because you have been on maternity leave?
Not sure if you can get any maternity pay?

Speak to them.

Advice by telephone

Call 0808 802 0062 (freephone)
10am – 1pm Monday – Friday

If you call the service outside of these hours, you can leave a message and an Adviser will get back to you.

Please note that the advice lines are closed on bank holidays.

Calls to our advice lines are free from UK landlines and mobile phones and do not appear on itemised bills.

Advice by email

The Email advice service is provided through the online contact form .

Please use the online contact form for any advice queries.

If you have a general question about the project or would like to find out more, you can email the team at: cheshiremerseyside@maternityaction.org.uk

Online advice – your rights

Key rights

Maternity Action have a great deal of information on our website on your rights at work, maternity benefits and maternity rights under COVID. Please check to see if our online information answers your question.
You can check your dates for maternity and parental leave and pay on the uk maternity and parental leave calculator.
You can check your dates for maternity and parental leave and pay on the Gov.uk Maternity and Parental leave calculator.
If your query is about NHS maternity care, please contact the Maternity Care Access Advice Service.

This has project is a continuation from the successful Wirral Health Justice Partnership pilot, in collaboration with Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Health Justice Partnerships

"Law is both a social determinant of health and a remedy for addressing health inequalities.” - Professor Dame Hazel Genn, Director, National Strategy for Health Justice Partnership, University College London

Health Justice partnerships are collaborations between health services (primary, acute, and mental health) and organisations specialising in welfare rights.
They provide welfare rights advice alongside health care, supporting people with issues such as welfare benefits, debt, housing, and employment.
Health Justice Partnerships tackle social and economic circumstances that are harmful to health visit Health Justice Partnerships | UCL Health of the Public - UCL – University College London for more information.

If you have a general question about the project or would like to find out more, you can email the team at: cheshiremerseyside@maternityaction.org.uk

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