We have come full circle to a point at which it is suggested that work is a bad thing for young people – and work in a pub even worse. As a society living in the real world, the number of kids that come to grief in pubs is tiny compared with the number who do so loitering around their area with nothing to do, saying they are bored and being offered heroin and ecstasy by people who want to exploit them. Keeping them out of pubs will not save them from exploitation. Putting them out in open spaces in their own communities at night is probably a bigger source of danger to them than anything else.