In England, are babies and infants now allowed in bars and pubs?

Question

In England, are babies and infants now allowed in bars and pubs?

Answer 1

i have a five month old and there are certain chains such as yates's and wetherspoons where you can take them as long as you are having a meal and before a certain time.  in reality surely that would be the only instances you would take a baby into a pub?

Answer 2

Under the 2003 Licencing act, if the pub is predominately a food pub, ie most of it's trade is dry and the child is accompanied by a suitable adult then yes. Although the Licensee or DPS may object and not allow children in. I have a rule that children are allowed only in my dinning area, and must remain with the parent at all times moment they are running around they are out. I dont believe that children and pubs mix, wrong enviorment, but that is my personal view, since it is my pub I do have a right to say who can and can not use the place!

Answer 3

Babies are allowed in at the managements consent, although I'd wait until the smoking ban comes into effect.  It's nice and smoke free here in Scotland where kids are welcome occasionally.

Answer 4

An English pub(or bar) is really no place for anybody under the age of sixteen. Children with adults do go into pubs to eat  at the discretion of the landlord(pub owner etc.) but are generally not allowed in the bar area and have to be supervised at all times.

Answer 5

Each bar has different policies-they have to have a special licence you see which costs extra and involves extra paperwork etc...so you have to ask at the particular bar/pub you want to visit.

Answer 6

Legally, babies are allowed if food is served, but the bar/pub can impose exclusion rules at their own discretion. I have exeperienced a couple where we have been refused for having a child (not mine!) with us.

Diddo as others, I would wait until the smoking ban is well enforced before taking children to such places...

Answer 7

Some pubs n clubs allow if ok with management but only before  7 o"clock and if its not too full or rowdy .Although i dont agree because of smoke fumes,bad language and the thought of any esculating trouble scares me,never mind the young ones.

Answer 8

Im sure they are not allowed but why would somebody wanna put a little one in harm where everyone will be smoking. That would hurt the kid....