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Keeping in touch (KIT) days

How many days someone on maternity or adoption leave can work without ending the leave.

10days

Corroborated Statutory Instrument Great Britain in force since 2006-10-01

Checked against its sources: statute verified 2026-09-21·guidance verified 2026-09-21

Scope: 10 days across the whole maternity leave period, and a day is a day however few hours are worked. Both parties must agree; neither can require them. These are DISTINCT from the 20 shared-parental-leave in touch (SPLIT) days, which are a separate entitlement in separate Regulations. Adoption leave carries its own 10-day equivalent in regulation 21A of the Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations 2002, inserted by the same instrument; that is a different provision and is not this record.

Current sources

Source A · Legislationhttps://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2014/made (SI 2006/2014 reg 9: "After regulation 11 insert" a new regulation 12A whose paragraph (1) reads "an employee may carry out up to 10 days' work for her employer during her statutory maternity leave period without bringing her maternity leave to an end"; in force 1 October 2006, reg 1)

retrieved 2026-09-08

Source B · Official guidancehttps://www.gov.uk/employee-rights-when-on-leave ("Employees can work up to 10 days during their maternity leave, adoption leave or Bereaved Partner's Paternity Leave. These days are called 'keeping in touch days'")

retrieved 2026-09-08

History

Value	From	To	Status	Sources
10	2006-10-01	—	Corroborated	Legislation: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2014/made (SI 2006/2014 reg 9: "After regulation 11 insert" a new regulation 12A whose paragraph (1) reads "an employee may carry out up to 10 days' work for her employer during her statutory maternity leave period without bringing her maternity leave to an end"; in force 1 October 2006, reg 1) retrieved 2026-09-08 Official guidance: https://www.gov.uk/employee-rights-when-on-leave ("Employees can work up to 10 days during their maternity leave, adoption leave or Bereaved Partner's Paternity Leave. These days are called 'keeping in touch days'") retrieved 2026-09-08

Receipt

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Figure ID: employment.statutory_payments.kit_days
Name in the API: Keeping-in-touch (KIT) days
Record fields (source type · unit · jurisdiction · status): si·days·GB·corroborated
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Compiler's notes

An SI carry (ADR-0014): SI 2006/2014 INSERTED regulation 12A whole, so there is no substitution for NF-1 to re-derive and the inserted text carries no provision ids in the amender's own document. The evidence is the 1999 Regulations' current view plus SI 2006/2014 as made, both hashed and recomputed at Gate 2. Nothing preceded this value: before 1 October 2006 no work was permitted during maternity leave at all.