Ms Kimberley Clarke:

I had finished maternity leave and was due back to work when the coronavirus started. I had just returned to work but had no childcare. I had to get my sister, who was on annual leave, to mind my child. Then I had to take eight weeks of leave before I got approved to work from home.

At the moment, I am working from home but due to the childcare reopening that I had prearranged, I am due back to work on Monday, 29 June. However, my child has never met the childminder. As he has to go through an initiation phase with the childminder, I have had to take more annual leave for that first ten days. This means he can be introduced to his childminder who is phasing in the children. I have to take ten days of annual leave and then after that I can return to work full-time.