Government has warned parents against child labour and instead encouraged them to send their children back to school beginning early next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAll children that have been cleared to resume physical interactions at school on March 1st<\/sup> have to be supported to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Parents and all community members need to understand that it is illegal to keep school going children at home when schools resume,\u201d Minister of ICT and National Guidance Judith Nabakooba ,stated during her weekly media briefing .<\/p>\n\n\n\n She noted that there are reports of children who are engaged in child labor and would prefer to continue making money instead of resuming school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI want to advise all parents to recall their children from wherever they are. This is the time to start preparing for school because we now have a clear time table,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nabakooba said that child mothers and pregnant girls should also be supported to continue with their education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Government has warned parents against child labour and instead encouraged them to send their children back to school beginning early<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/na.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14044,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/minister-nabakooba-decries-domestic-violence-in-mityana\/","url_meta":{"origin":2707,"position":0},"title":"Minister Nabakooba Decries Domestic Violence in Mityana","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"March 13, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Lands minister Judith Nabakooba has expressed concern over the increasing numbers of domestic violence cases in Mityana and called upon women to tap into government programs and start poverty alleviation projects. 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