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Social work and child protection

CHILDREN, the future of a nation, are often vulnerable and at risk of abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence. In the early 20th century, child protection laws often focused on preventing child labour and...

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A call to end child labour

IN WILLIAM Blake’s touching poems ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ from his collections Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, he paints a sad picture of child labour during the Industrial Revolution. Blake describes little children, covered in soot, crying out ‘weep, weep.’...

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Pledge to eliminate child labour by 2025 appears mere rhetoric

AN INCREASE in child labour, with more than a million children engaged in hazardous work, shows the emptiness of the government’s pledge to eliminate child labour in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals aimed at ending all forms of child labour...

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