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ITEM EX14 - ANNEX 1
EXECUTIVE
– 27 MAY 2003
EMPLOYMENT
OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Employment of
School Age Children - Summary of the Current Law Children and Young Persons
Act 1933 (and others); Oxfordshire County Council Bye-Laws 1998
Children are of
compulsory school age until the last Friday in June of the school year
in which they reach the age of 16 (usually Year 11)
IT IS ILLEGAL
TO EMPLOY CHILDREN UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE
Work is "Any
work that is part of a business whether or not the person is paid"
All children below
minimum school leaving age :
- can only ever
work between 7am and 7pm;
- must have 2 weeks
free from work each year;
- must not work
more than 12 hours during any school week;
- can work a total
of 2 hours on school days between 7.00 am and 8.30 am and after school
until 7pm;
- can only work
for 2 hours on a Sunday;
- must have a break
of one hour after working 4 hours;
- at age 13 and
14 can work for 5 hours on a Saturday or on weekdays during holidays,
but can only work for 25 hours per week during school holidays;
- at age 15 and
16, can work for 8 hours on a Saturday or weekdays during holidays,
but can only work for 35 hours per week during school holidays;
At age 13, children
can only do light work in the following areas :
- agricultural or
horticultural work;
- delivering newspapers;
- shop work, including
stacking shelves;
- hairdressing salons;
- office work;
- car washing;
- cafés and
restaurants;
- riding stables;
- domestic work
in hotels and other establishments offering accommodation
No
child of any age may be employed :
- in a cinema, theatre,
discotheque, dance hall or night club, (unless licensed to perform there);
- to sell or deliver
alcohol: except in sealed containers;
- to deliver milk;
- to deliver fuel
oils;
- in a commercial
kitchen;
- to collect or
sort refuse;
- in any work which
is more than three metres above ground level or, in the case of internal
work, more than three metres above floor level;
- in employment
involving harmful exposure to physical, biological or chemical agents;
- to collect money
or to sell or canvass door to door, except under the supervision of
an adult;
- in work involving
exposure to adult material or in situations which are for this reason
otherwise unsuitable for children;
- in telephone sales;
- in any slaughterhouse
or in that part of any butcher’s shop or other premises connected with
the killing of livestock, butchery, or the preparation of carcasses
or meat for sale;
- as an attendant
or assistant in a fairground or amusement arcade or in any other premises
used for the purpose of public amusement by means of automatic machines,
games of chance or skill or similar devices.
- In the personal
care of residents of any residential care home or nursing home unless
under the supervision of a responsible adult.
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