Kids Sharing Room With Parents
Parents have a duty to protect and provide for their children.
While the law says all parents are free to raise their children as they wish, according to their own beliefs and religion, there are several laws which restrict what parents can and can't do.
There are also many myths about several parenting laws, including whether you can or can't hit a child or whether a parent can be prosecuted if your child skips school.
Here, we take a look at what the law says parents cannot do.
1) Keep them from school or let them skip school
Parents have a duty to provide an education for their children. By law, the parent is responsible for making sure their children (aged from reception class up to the age of 16) get a full-time education. If your child does not attend school regularly, the local children's services could take legal action against you.
Even if your child is missing school without your knowledge, you, as the parent, are still responsible, and could be committing an offence. Headteachers are now able to issue penalty notices of up to £100 to parents who fail to take responsibility for their child's regular school attendance.
Although the Government is keen that all three and four-year-olds should have the benefit of early years play and education, there is no legal obligation on parents to send their child to early education.
2) Put them in the wrong car seat
Parents are legally required to make sure their child is in the correct car seat, appropriate for their age. The driver is also required by law to make sure his or her younger passengers are wearing a seatbelt. As a driver, if you are convicted of failing to ensure that a child passenger is using an appropriate child car seat or wearing a seat belt according to the legal requirements, the fixed penalty is a £100 fine. If the case is taken to court, you could face a fine of up to £500.
Also, it is illegal to carry a child in a rear-facing child seat in the front if there is an active front passenger airbag. In this case the airbag must be deactivated or the rear-facing child seat must be placed in the back of the car.
In addition to the legal penalties, failure to wear a seat belt or failure to ensure that a child passenger uses an appropriate child car seat or wears a seat belt according to the legal requirements, could affect any claims against your car insurance if you were to crash.
3) Hit them
Currently it is not illegal for a parent to smack a child, but if the smacking goes beyond the line of 'reasonable punishment', a parent could be charged with a range of offences. If hitting a child leaves a mark, such as visible bruising, minor swelling or it causes mental harm, or if the child is hit with a cane, stick, belt or other implement, it would be seen as "unreasonable" and therefore illegal.
It is illegal for teachers, nursery workers and child care workers to smack another person's child.
The NSPCC and other children's charities have been rigorously campaigning for a total ban on smacking. This has not yet come in to force.
4) Leave them alone
The law doesn't have a set age at which you can leave a child on their own, but it is an offence to leave a child alone if it puts them at risk. Parents can be prosecuted if they leave a child unsupervised 'in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury to health'.
Leaving your child alone will depend on whether you and he/she feel comfortable and confident about doing so. The parent remains responsible for the child until the age of 16.
The NSPCC says:
- children under 12 are rarely mature enough to be left alone for a long period of time
- children under 16 shouldn't be left alone overnight
- babies, toddlers and very young children should never be left alone
5) Smoke with children in the car
Last October it became illegal in England and Wales to smoke in a car or other vehicle with anyone under the age of 18 present. Drivers and passengers could face a £50 penalty if they are caught smoking with a child in the car.
6) Let them cycle on the paths
It is illegal for anyone, including children, to cycle on a pavement alongside a road, unless it has been marked as a cycle track. Therefore, as their parent you should not let your child cycle on a path.
However, children under the age of ten are below the age of criminal responsibility. Therefore if you let your five-year-old cycle on the path, they are breaking the law, but while police officers can theoretically stop young children who are cycling on pavements, they have no powers to arrest, fine or even caution them.
7) Give young children alcohol
It is illegal to give any child aged five and under alcohol. However you may be surprised to learn it is not illegal for a parent to give a child aged five and above alcohol on private premises or in licensed premises.
8) Let their child leave home too soon
Parents of under 16-year-olds are legally responsible for making sure their child has somewhere safe to stay.
A parent cannot stop a child leaving home by locking them in or physically, but can take action in court to bring their child back if he or she runs away.
9) Share bedrooms with siblings
There is currently no law in the UK about children of different genders sharing a bedroom. However the NSPCC advises that children of the opposite sex over the age of ten should not share a room.
If you're renting your home from the council, or your home is owned by a housing association there may be rules in place restricting children over ten of the opposite sex from sharing a room.
10) Force them to work
The law about children working is complicated. The Trades Union Congress and NSPCC have estimated that there are over 200 pieces of legislation, including European and international legislation and local by-laws, about children working.
The Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (CYPA) sets 14 as the minimum age for a child to be employed, on a part-time basis, but there are restrictions in place over the type of work and the number of hours.
No one under the age of 16 can work in a butcher's shop, in a fairground or amusement arcade, deliver milk or work in a commercial kitchen.
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14-year-olds may do 'light work' only and cannot work for more than two hours on a school day. On a Saturday or a day during the school holidays, they cannot work more than five hours and on Sunday no more than two hours. They cannot work more than 25 hours in one week and must have at least two consecutive weeks' holiday in a year.
13-year-olds are allowed to take part time employment, on a more restricted basis. This work would include employment by their parents in horticultural or agricultural work, or some categories of light work. Local authorities set out the number of hours allowed a day, time of day, rest and meal breaks and other conditions.
11) Take your child abroad without the other parents' permission
You must get the permission of everyone with parental responsibility for a child or from a court before taking the child abroad. Taking a child abroad without permission is child abduction.
You automatically have parental responsibility if you are the child's mother, but you still need the permission of anyone else with parental responsibility before you take the child abroad. However, if the child is the subject of a Child Arrangements Order, the resident parent can take them abroad for up to 28 days, without the permission of the non-resident parent.
Kids Sharing Room With Parents
Source: https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/11-things-law-says-parents-820861
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