Image caption, Children working in a Victorian textile factory. One job was to clear strands of cotton from under the looms while the machinery remained in operation.

Alternatively, students could explore extracts from novels depicting working children in Victorian times such as, ‘Oliver Twist’ or ‘Nicholas Nickleby’.

More than 660 Victorian children were locked in or out of childcare services, were taken away or unaccounted for last ...

Victorian parents are also ... Early Learning Centre – and 223 were “working towards” meeting standards. The latest figures showed one in five children was developmentally vulnerable ...

At any given time, about 9,000 Victorian children are in out-of-home care ... there's been a committee established to progress some of the work," she acknowledges. "But I really do think this ...