What is the legal age a person can babysit siblings?
There is no minimum age set in law when a young person is allowed to babysit for a child. Both RoSPA and the NSPCC recommend that no one under 16 should be left to care for an infant. The British Red Cross, stipulate that participants must have reached their 14th birthday by the time of their final assessment. Under some circumstances, parents, can be prosecuted and fined if they leave their children in a situation which a court might judge to be ‘neglectful’. This usually occurs when there is an ‘incident’ which requires intervention by the Emergency Services.
