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Children and young people within a Blue Light workplace
Overview
The development and promotion of work experience and apprenticeship programmes across the Blue Light services increases the probability of children and young people being placed within dynamic workplace environments.
Schemes such as the Apprenticeship Levy have encouraged Blue Light organisations to increase the integration of young people. Currently, all emergency service organisations offer Government endorsed apprenticeship programmes to young people aged 16 years and over.
These programmes undoubtedly provide exciting opportunities for young people to learn about the invaluable work that is undertaken by the emergency services and encourage them to consider a rewarding career path in these environments.
When inviting young people into the workplace, either for work experience or apprenticeship programmes, organisations need to carefully consider the health, safety and wellbeing of the young people for the duration of their stay.
This guidance note seeks to set out some of the main risk management factors that Blue Light organisations must consider when inviting young people into the workplace. These factors include:
- Health and safety – the law and managing the risk
- Safeguarding of vulnerable groups
- Insurance requirements
For the purposes of this guide we are adopting the following definitions
- Young person – anyone under the age of 18
- Child: anyone who has not yet reached the official minimum school leaving age. (Pupils will reach the minimum school age in the school year in which they turn 16).
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