• 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.

This is work which by its nature or the conditions under which it is performed, is hazardous, exploitative and threatens the health, safety, physical growth and mental development of a child.

Where a child below 16 years is employed to do work for payment.

• 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.