• Local councils must safeguard and promote the welfare of the children in their areas or villages. The secretary for children’s affairs is given this responsibility in every local council.
• The secretary for children affairs has the power to mediate or resolve issues in any situation where the rights of a child being abused.
• To provide for the safety, welfare, and education of children whose parents, guardians or other persons responsible for bringing up the child do not carry out the duty of providing education and guidance.
• To provide assistance and accommodation for any child who comes to it after being lost or abandoned or seeking refugee within its area.
• To report and look for the parent or guardian of any lost or abandoned child in their area. The local government council is required to use all methods including the mass media such as radio.
• To return the lost or abandoned child to the place where he or she lives.

Labour officer - stop the employment of children by withdrawing and ordering the employers to stop the employment of children

Police – child and family protection unit.

• The court has the power to hear criminal cases against children and applications relating to the protection and care of children including child exploitation.
• It must follow informal procedures, which means that the child is questioned informally, not exposed to adversarial procedures.
• A child also has the right to be represented in this court.
• It sits in camera, where the public is not allowed to attend court proceedings. The only people who can attend proceedings in this court include parties to the case, their advocates and witnesses and other persons directly concerned with the case.
• The parents or guardians, probation and welfare officer and any other person whom the court allows to be present.

• The term child work refers to light activities done by children within their homes under the observation and supervision by their families in an environment free of exploitation.
• Child work allows children to learn the roles they are expected to take on during adulthood.
• Activities such as cooking, washing and fetching firewood and water, sweeping, washing clothes and looking after animals are acceptable as a process of learning and a means of transmitting skills from parents to children.

Note: if the above work is excessive and interferes with the child’s development then it is child labour.