Shimon

Thanks for the replies.  Some information you have shared I was already aware of, but some of it has been extremely valuable. What’s good to know is I’m on the right track and some of the hurdles are not game changers. 

After over 10 years living here I feel it’s time to return to the UK with my family. I’m looking for advice from people who have made the move back with their family.  
I am completely out of the system in the UK. I don’t have any property or family or even a bank account anymore. How hard would it be to rent a property without any references? How hard is it to get a bank account these days?  How do I get back into the system and get my 2 kids also into the system so they can go to school there. My wife is a production engineer here. Could she work as an engineer in the UK? She will obviously have the spouse visa which allows her to do any job, but I don’t want her wasting her time on a minimum wage job.