Employment of children

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead delivers the child employment service through Achieving for Children.

Types of work allowed and restrictions

No child of any age may be employed

  • In a cinema, theatre or discotheque, dance hall or night club, (except in connection with a performance given entirely by children or under the terms and conditions of an entertainment licence).
  • To sell or deliver alcohol except in sealed containers.
  • To deliver milk or fuel oils.
  • In a commercial kitchen.
  • To collect or sort refuse.
  • In any work more than three metres above ground, or in the case of internal work three metres above floor level.
  • In employment involving harmful exposure to physical, biological or chemical agents.
  • In work involving exposure to adult material or in situations which are for this reason otherwise unsuitable to children.
  • In telephone sales.
  • In a slaughterhouse or in butcher's shop or other place connected with the killing/butchery of livestock or the preparation of meat for sale.
  • As an attendant or assistant in a fairground or amusement arcade, or in any other place used for the purpose of public amusement by automatic machines, games of chance, or skill etc.
  • In personal care of residents of any residential home or nursing home unless under the supervision of a responsible adult.
  • To collect money or canvass door to door, except under the supervision of an adult.
  • Before 7am or after 7pm.

Examples of light work allowed

  • Agricultural or horticultural work.
  • Delivery of newspapers, journals etc.
  • Shop work.
  • Hairdressing salons.
  • Office work.
  • Car washing (by hand in a private residential setting).
  • In a cafe or restaurant.
  • In a riding stables.
  • Domestic work in hotels etc.