Partner is self employed .. how does paternity leave /pay work?

[Lunamoon4]

My partner is self employed and would like to take as much time as possible off when the baby is born, but obviously as he is self employed, if he doesn’t work, he doesn’t get paid.

I’ve had a look to see if he’d be entitled to any government paternity pay but couldn’t really make sense of it, would he be entitled to anything even for a week or two? With my reduced pay, him earning nothing at all would be a struggle so I was hoping there’d be at least something small to help.

Thanks for helping, I’m clueless with this stuff as this is my first!

My partner was self employed and we just had to save for his time off. As far as I’m aware he wasn’t entitled to any government help.

Same here. My partner didn't get anything for our first. Got our second due in April.

He had a week off with our first, will probably do the same again this time

Same boat here.
No government support from what I can find.
He is working like a maniac now, to allow for time off, where hes not booking work in for 6 weeks over the baby.

Itll all even out eventually! A week of statutory, is half a day for him.