Plan your return from maternity or parental leave

Help me plan my return from maternity, adoption or shared parental leave.

My return date: [date]
Childcare: [what's arranged]
What I'd like work to look like: [same hours, fewer days, flexible start]
What's changed at work while I've been away: [anything I know]
What worries me: [anything]

Ask me up to 3 short questions first if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers.

Then:
1. A timeline from now to the end of my first month back.
2. How to use keeping in touch days: GOV.UK says you can work up to 10 during maternity or adoption leave (20 during shared parental leave), and they're optional for both sides. Suggest what to use them for.
3. An email to my manager about my return, and a flexible working request outline if I need one.
4. A first-month plan: catching up, rebuilding contacts, and protecting pick-up times.
5. Remind me that if I want to change my return date I need to give notice, and to check GOV.UK for how much.

This is planning help, not legal advice; point me to GOV.UK and Acas for the rules. Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts, dates or results. UK English.

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