Agency worker maternity pay

[Sweetk0987poiu]

Need advice as I’m in a bit of a pickle 🙃! I started employment with an agency on a 12 week contract that started in April. I was offered a year contract with the company directly in may but now they have said they can no longer offer me that. Now I’m still with the agency, I’m past the temp 12 week stage and they said I’m just in a rolling contract for the time being, they have had some staff leave so they will review how many staff they need and that will obviously effect me. I’m now panicking because I know I have to be in employment for 26 continuous weeks to get maternity pay but do you think I should speak to my agency and ask if they can take me on another roll in the company (which they usually have available) or would this effect maternity pay or should I take my chances and not say anything? I’m only 8 weeks I didn’t want to mention anything this soon but I don’t want to be left without a job suddenly 😩

I had pretty similar situation but I had to tell my agency because the job is in mental health so I didn't wana risk being hurt or anything. They stopped offering me work due to the nature of the job so I had to look for a temporary job for the rest of my pregnancy, it has been hard financially but luckily my partner has quite a good wage coming in. I had started doing some self employed work with a courier company. Anyway cut long story short; I am entitled to maternity allowance which is around £150 a week- not good but suppose better than nothing & I will be looking for a permanent job in the future. Wish I'd of known I was going to fall pregnant so I could have prepared better but hey ho, we will manage!