Children's role in street industry

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The high rate of the illegal child labor is homework to solve not only for the developing countries, but even for the some of the developed countries. By following the BBC News report, among 751 third year students who were interviewed, more than half had part time job and 96% of them were working without a license. The bylaws of the Scotland says that children under age 16 can work only with the work permit and those aged 10 to 12 years can only be employed doing occasional light work by their parents. Children under 10 cannot work at all. The works that allowed to the under age children are very light works including delivering newspapers, stacking supermarket shelves, etc. However, the study found out that the most of those children workers are involved in much high risk jobs that including delivering fuel oils, working in fairground or amusement arcades working in cinemas, theatres discos or nightclubs.

The concerns on those children who are working illegally do not finish with their low preferment in the schools. The problem becomes larger, as a lot of those children are exposed to the danger of the accidents at the work cite. And since they are working illegally, when the accidents occurred and they got hurt, they cannot ask for paying damage to the employers or to the insurance companies. The city council of Glasgow said that since the council is “unable to enforce the legislation and can only work through providing information, [they] have to rely on the goodwill of employers not to break the law.”