Child employment

Child employment and attendance.

Permitted and prohibited employment

Examples of permitted employment include:

  • ​light agricultural/horticultural
  • delivering newspapers
  • hairdressing - general duties
  • office
  • café/restaurant - waiting tables/general duties
  • riding stables
  • domestic hotel duties
  • shop work - general duties

Examples of prohibited employment include:

  • ​cinema, nightclub, disco
  • street trading
  • commercial kitchen preparing or cooking food
  • fairground/amusement arcade or skittle alley
  • collecting money or selling/canvassing door-to-door
  • slaughter house
  • industrial, construction or manufacturing industries
  • selling or delivering alcohol
  • collecting/sorting rubbish
  • delivering milk or fuel
  • using dangerous machinery
  • telephone sales
  • personal care of residents in care/nursing homes
  • exposure to biological or chemical agents
  • anything that is three metres or more above ground level
  • anything that involves exposure to adult material
  • anything that involves heavy lifting