Child 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