Make the law clear that any child who assists in for profit work is employed

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Make the law clear that any child who assists in for profit work is employed

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Thousands of children, many of them younger than 13 in the UK, are working in commercial research, testing, marketing and consultancy. See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4308213/Thousands-of-children-being-paid-to-market-products-to-schoolmates.html

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The Children and Young Persons Act 1933 prohibits children younger than 13 being used to assist in for-profit work such as that described above. However, problems with enforcing this law have caused many to turn a blind eye to this. The result is many children are being exploited –have no workers’ rights, are deprived of pay and can end up doing work such as for-profit clinical testing that is unsafe for them, and so the law needs to be made clearer to ensure this does not happen.

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