Would anyone happen to know the maximum number of hours a day I could work without having to have a break?  I have been offered a part-time job for 18 hours a week.  I was told that this would be six hours a day for three days but have now been told that I would have to have a lunch hour making each day effectively seven hours.  I want to try to suggest that I do four days in some way or another (much better dog wise as I probably wouldn't need to arrange cover) and not have breaks but I don't know what the legal requirements are.  This is a reputable employer who will only be flexible exactly within the law (which I know I should be very grateful about!!)
Many thanks

Here is a site that gives some details.  Where I worked, the policy was if you worked 4 hours you got 15 mins, if you worked 6 hours you got 30 and anything over 9 you got an hour lunch and 2 x 15 min breaks but these were taken during the hours that you were working and not additional.  So if I went to work at 9 and due to finish at 3 I would get half an hour at some point during that time.  Obviously each company has their own policy but that website gives you the minimum they have to provide.

From what I gather you can actually work 6 hours without a break, anything over you have to take an hour.

Thank you both - so I could actually work the six hours without a break then?  I think I will go back to them and have a chat, it just seems pointless to sit around for an hour and I would probably end up working anyway (maybe what they want!!)

I thought you had to have a break if you work 5 hours?

six hours is the max you can work without a break after that you have to take a min of 15 mins which can be unpaid or paid, depends of the employer.

That is for over 18's , under 18's must get a 30 minute break after 4 hours I think ( just in case OP is really young :-) )

I only wish I was really young Dakkobear - I will be teaching 16-19s which can only make me feel even older than I am :)

I teach 16 - 90, and I have teenage kids so I feel older by the minute - especially when one of my students who is in his mid 20's said he thought i was about the same age as his mum :-D (she was younger :-( )
Whatever you do, don't pretend you understand their language - far better to ask them what it means than face the ridicule when you get it wrong :-D :-D