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Community service

How can my children help in the community?

Children learn invaluable lessons by working in the community and it also teaches them a little humility and social responsibility. There are some legal constrictions. Many voluntary organisations give children volunteer work, provided they are covered by the organisation’s insurance; however, in order to avoid child exploitation, the law limits what children under school-leaving age can do (children are under school-leaving age until the last Friday in June of the school year in which they turn sixteen). For example, under the age of fourteen, a child cannot work for a profit-making organisation – whether they are paid or not. For details of what children are legally allowed to do at various ages, see page