Prohibited & Permitted Employment for Children (Child Employment Permits)

Prohibited Employment for Children

No child of any age may be employed in the following:-

• in a cinema, theatre, discotheque, dance hall or night club, except in connection with a performance given entirely by children.
• 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 meters above ground/ floor level.
• in employment involving harmful exposure to physical, biological or chemical agents.
• to collect money 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 or chance or skill or similar device.
• in the personal care of residents of any residential care home or nursing home. 

This does not prevent children taking part in a performance under the provisions of a licence granted in accordance with the Children and Young Persons Act 1963 and The Children (Performances and Activities) (Wales) Regulations 2015.

Permitted employment of children aged 14 or over

A child aged 14 or over may be employed only in light work

Permitted employment of children aged 13

A child aged 13 may be employed only in light work in the following categories:

•     agricultural or horticultural work
•     delivery of newspapers, journals and other printed material
•     shop work, including shelf stacking
•     hairdressing salons
•     office work
•     car washing by hand in a private residential setting
•     in a café or restaurant
•     in riding stables
•     domestic work in hotels and other establishments offering accommodation

Contacts

• Email: education@powys.gov.uk
• Phone: 01597 826422
• Address: Schools and Education Service, Powys County Hall, Spa Road East, Llandrindod Wells, Powys, LD1 5LG

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