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Adoption leave policy (adoption within UK)

Keeping accurate sickness absence records helps employers monitor attendance, manage absence consistently and support fair decision‑making. This guide explains how to use a sickness absence record form to capture key details of absence and any action taken.

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By Lynda Macdonald, Lavina Daryanani and Zeba Sayed, Brightmine Senior Legal Editor

Use this model policy to set out the rights of employees who are adopting a child through an approved UK adoption agency, fostering to adopt or having a child through a surrogacy arrangement. We provide a separate model Adoption leave policy (adoption from overseas).

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About the authors

Zeba Sayed, Senior legal editor at Brightmine

Zeba Sayed
Senior Legal Editor, Brightmine

Zeba is a former practicing employment solicitor with more than 17 years’ experience in employment law.

Zeba joined Brightmine in 2017 and is a senior legal editor in the employment law and compliance team. In this role, she is responsible for content across Policies and procedures, Letters and forms and Contract clauses. She is also responsible for ensuring that allocated chapters of the employment law guide are kept updated. She has a special interest in the implications of AI in the employment field.

Zeba holds a degree in Law and completed her LPC at the College of Law in Chester. Prior to joining Brightmine, Zeba was an associate solicitor at Lyons Davidson Solicitors in the London office. She advised both individuals and employers on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters and delivered training to clients nationally. Zeba has also worked in conjunction with Acas London to deliver training on their behalf. She is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.

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Lynda Macdonald

Lynda Macdonald has worked for more than 20 years as a self-employed, freelance management trainer, adviser and writer specialising in employment law.

She regularly designs and conducts training courses on all aspects of employment law for a range of managers and supervisors in all sectors of industry.

Prior to setting up her own business in employment law and management training/consultancy, she worked as an HR manager in the oil industry for more than 10 years. She is also appointed as a panel member of the employment tribunal service in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Lynda is a university graduate in language and a chartered fellow of the CIPD. She has an LLM degree in employment law and practice.

Lynda has written numerous books on various aspects of employment law, all of which have been published by major national publishers. She has co-authored several other books, and currently contributes extensively to various HR and employment law hard-copy and online products.

Lavina Daryanani

Lavina Daryanani is a solicitor in an employment lawyer in the Government legal department. She is experienced in advising employers on a wide range of employment law issues and in defending tribunal claims. Lavina has also provided training on various aspects of employment law to managers and HR professionals.

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