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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 Child employment

Email childemployment@durham.gov.uk
Telephone 03000 265 902

Related information

Employment of children