| If you are 13 or over you can get a part-time job outside school hours. |
| You cannot be employed if you are under 13. |
| What hours you can work, and what jobs you can do depends on rules designed to protect you. |
| You cannot do any of the following jobs until the end of year 11: |
- Work in a cinema, theatre, disco, dance hall or night club.
- Cooking or preparing food in a commercial kitchen (eg Chip Shop or Takeaway);
- Collecting Refuse;
- Selling or delivering alcohol;
- Work where you might be exposed to harmful chemical or other agents (eg a petrol station);
- Factory/assembly work or any work in an "industrial undertaking";
- Delivering milk;
- Work in a slaughterhouse or butcher's shop;
- Telephone sales;
- Collecting money or canvassing door to door (except where you are collecting for newspaper subscriptions);
- Work involving exposure to unsuitable material (eg video shop);
- As an attendant or assistant in a fairground or amusement arcade
- Work more than 3 metres off the ground;
- Care of residents of any residential care home or nursing home unless under the supervision of a responsible adult;
- Working in a cinema;
- Delivering fuel oils;
- As an attendant or assistant in a fairground or amusement arcade
- In a factory or assembly line;
- Any work in school time.
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| All young persons up to, and including the school minimum leaving age must be registered for employment with the Local Education Authority. Contact: |
| The Child Employment Officer |
| Education Welfare Service, |
| The Glebe Centre,Glebe Street, |
| Wellington, Telford. |
| Phone: 01952 385223 |
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