Scrap dealers have topped the list of people prompting child labour and exploitation in Uganda.

This was contained in the report released by the platform for labour in Kampala which showed that scrap dealers use children and these children break into houses and kiosks to steal any metallic due to the pressure they get from the people buying scrap.

Uganda children working at a stone quarry

The report placed scrap collection among children on the platform for labour list which carried out the investigations and baby sitting came second and others include stone quarrying, selling eggs and charcoal stoves and roasting meat and doing domestic work.

The  Program me officer of the platform for labour Helen Grace Namulwana said that in most times children who are sent to collect scrap are arrested and those sending them are left free.

She reported that children used as labourers are forced to carry heavy loads beyond their capacity, children are working in unhealthy environment.

She said that in Makindye 12,000 children were exposed to child labour by their parents and are working under strenuous conditions.

She warned parents to stop engaging children in labour work that stop them from going to school.

Reports indicate that 1.7 million children in Uganda are involved in child laour.