A PROUD father-of-four visited Downing Street on Monday to help launch a new law for working parents.

Dave Woolcock, 47, a chartered accountant, attended a breakfast reception with his three-year-old son Andrew in support of the law, which allows paid paternity leave for fathers.

Dave, who works for at Moore and Smalley, Winckley Square, has already taken advantage of his company's flexi-time, set up with government funding, and varies his working hours to suit his family life.

'New man' Dave takes his children to school every day and often works from home.

As a single parent for a number of years, Dave has had his hands full raising his children, Jenny, 22, Michael ten, William, eight, and his youngest son, Andrew.

On Monday he was greeted at Number Ten by Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Patricia Hewitt.

The new employment law is expected to help working parents juggle work and family life with six months paid maternity leave for new mums, increased from the previous 18 weeks. For the first time ever, fathers will get two weeks paid paternity leave.