• It is the responsibility of any member of the community who has information that a child’s rights are being abused to report this to the local government council.
• When a member of the community has information that a parent, guardian or person responsible for bringing up a child is able, but refuses to provide the child with enough food, housing, shelter, clothes, medical or education, the community member must report the parent, guardian, or person responsible for bringing up the child.
• Any person, including a labour union or employer’s organization, can report any person employing a child in work that is not light work.
• It is, therefore, everyone’s responsibility to report child labour or child exploitation.

• 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 family and children courts are a court set up in every district and every other local government unit. This court is led by a magistrate who is not below Grade II.