Children can work, paid or unpaid, doing these types of work:

• deliver newspapers
• shop work
• hairdressing
• office work
• wash cars (but not in a garage)
• wait on tables in a café or restaurant
• work in a livery, riding stables, kennels or catteries

From the age of 14 until they leave compulsory education

Children can also do light work in:

• garden centres
• fruit picking (and some types of farm work)
• chambermaid work
• sweeping up

Light work means that the type of work, and where it is done, does not threaten or affect the health, safety and education of the child.