P564ORACLE 564 Mon20 Jan C4 1702:42  1/6   Watchout ─ children   at work!   Be it babysitting, newspaper deliveries or shop work, Britain has a mini- workforce beavering away to earn more pocket money, says Sue Gorska. Back in 1983, a Gallup survey estimated that the spending power of children between the ages of 5 and 16 was more than £780m a year. Although this figure includes pocket money and gifts from relatives, at least some of it comes from part-time employment. Just how many children do work outside the home? more follows > Your Money ...560 Tax Rates ...565 RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING ON 496

P564ORACLE 564 Mon20 Jan C4 1715:29  2/6   Watchout ─ children   at work!   A Low Pay Unit survey, done in 1985, found that as many as a quarter to a third of school-age children in Britain have part time jobs outside the home ─ excluding work like babysitting or running errands. The most common job was newspaper delivery. Around 300,000 children do this for anything up £7 a week. One in 5 children did shop wgrk, fgllowed by farmwork and cleaning. Nearly 12% work- ed with animals, perhaps at a kennels, stable or riding school, while only 2% modelled, acted or danced. more follows > Your Money ...560 Tax Rates ...565 Barclaycard Theatre Guide see p231

P564ORACLE 564 Mon20 Jan C4 1713:14  3/6  Watchout ─ children   at work!   Most children in the Low Pay Unit survey worked for 10 hours or less a week, though one London boy put in a weekly 47 hours in the family take-away restaurant. Earnings were low with most children getting under £1 an hour and one in 10 less than 50p an hour. Although there are regulations which are designed to protect children from hazards they might not know about, around a third did have some sort of accident at work. Main causes were heavy weights, broken glass, or slipp- ing or falling. more follows > Your Money ...560 Tax Rates ...565

P564ORACLE 564 Mon20 Jan C4 1703:17  4/6   Watchout ─ children   at work!   The 19th Century industrial revolution saw exploitation of children, who wgrk- ed long hours for less than a third of the adult wage. Since then a series of laws and bye-laws have restricted the work children may do. For example, no-one under 17 can be a street trader or sell anything other than fruit or vegetables from dogr to door. No child under 13 may wgrk except when the local authority permits some light agricultural work for a parent or guardian. For 13 to 16 year olds there are rules on the hours that may be wgr- ked ─ eg. not before 7am or after 7pm. more follows > Your Money ...560 Tax Rates ...565

P564ORACLE 564 Mon20 Jan C4 1711:58  5/6   Watchout ─ children   at work!   The 1933 Children and Young Person's Act gives local authorities the power to make any byelaws which may limit further the jobs done and the hours worked by children. They may only allow one hour to be worked before school in the morning, say, and can raise the minimum part-time wgrking age. They can specify the maximum number of hours a child may work each day or week and the number of meal breaks he or she gets. The local authority can, if it wishes, prohibit children from doing work it considers unsuitable ─ except fgr licensed entertainers. more follows > Your Money ...560 Tax Rates ...565

P564ORACLE 564 Mon20 Jan C4 1704:01  6/6   Watchout ─ children   at work!   For parents whose children want to earn extra pocket money the problem is find- ing out what they may do and when. As yet there's no standardisation of local authority byelaws, so two children liv- ing in different areas but attending the same school will be subject to dif- ferent regulations. Ask at your local citizen's advice bureau what rules apply in your area. Working Children is available from the Low Pay Unit, 9 Upper Berkeley Street, London W1H 8BY. Price £1.75 including postage and packing. more follows > Your Money ...560 Tax Rates ...565 BUYING/SELLING A CAR? LOOK AT 496

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