Your policy on hours of work should state: 1  The number of hours full-time employees are required to work: this is often express in hours per week. 2  The length of the lunch break. 3  The length of other breaks if provided.
Just over 200,000 children are arrested in the UK each year, according to Home Office statistics. The average age of the children arrested is between 10 and 17 years old. Children at this age will usually not be aware of their rights when arrested.
At the current time there is no clear legal definition as to what constitutes an unsupervised child. In determining if a child is old enough and mature enough to be left alone, a number of factors. considered in tandem assists in the determination. They include: 1. Chronological age: Young children from 0-6 years should not be left alone for even short. periods of time. Children 6-9 years should be left for only short periods, depending on. their level of maturity.