SCHOOL-LEAVING AGE

• Children have to stay at school until the age of 16. There is no upper age limit.

ALCOHOL

• You have to be 18 to buy alcohol in a shop or a pub, but if you are 16 and you are having a meal in a pub, you can drink beer or wine with it.

PROSECUTION

• In Scotland, you can be prosecuted for a crime at the age of 8. In England and Wales, the age is 10. You can't be sent to prison until you are 21.