Prohibited employment
Prohibited employment are the types of jobs in which children of compulsory school age cannot be employed.
No young person of compulsory school age can be employed:
- 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
- to deliver milk
- in the collection of fuel and fuel oils
- in a commercial kitchen
- to collect or sort refuse
- in any work which is more than three metres above ground/floor level
- in employment involving harmful exposure to physical, biological or chemical agents
- to collect money or to sell or canvass door to door
- in work involving harmful exposure to adult material or in situations which are, for this reason, unsuitable for children
- in telephone sales
- in any slaughterhouse or in that part of any butcher's shop or other premises connected in the killing of livestock, butchery, or in the preparation of carcasses or meat for sale
- as an attendant or assistant in a fairground or amusement arcade
- in the personal care of residents in any residential or nursing home
- in street trading
- in any industrial undertaking
Contact us
- Contact Child employment
- childemployment@durham.gov.uk
- 03000 265 902
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Our address is:
- Children and Young People Services
- County Hall
- Durham
- County Durham
- United Kingdom
- DH1 5UJ
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