What is industry code 9700? What industry code should be registered for housework activities in households?

1. What is industry code 9700?
According to Appendix II of Decision 27/2018/QD-TTg issued by the Prime Minister on July 6, 2018 on Vietnam’s economic sector system, industry code group 9700 – 97000 is about domestic work activities in households.

Industry code group 9700 includes:

– Household work for hire such as babysitting, cooking, housekeeping, gardening, janitor, laundry, elder care, driving, housekeeping, tutor, guardian, secretary…

– Employment in households determined by the tenant in a census or work study, even if the tenant is single. The value of products created in this activity is counted as hired labor in households.

Group 9700 will exclude: Providing services such as cooking, gardening… by independent suppliers (corporate or private) are classified in the corresponding service type.

2. Prohibited acts against children include?
Pursuant to Article 6 of the Law on Children 2016, prohibited acts against children are prescribed as follows:

– Depriving children of their right to life.

– Abandonment, neglect, trafficking, kidnapping, exchanging, and appropriating children.

– Sexual abuse, violence, abuse, and exploitation of children.

– Organizing, supporting, instigating and forcing children into early marriage.

– Using, soliciting, inciting, inciting, taking advantage of, manipulating, seducing or forcing children to commit acts that violate the law or offend the honor and dignity of others.

– Obstructing children from exercising their rights and duties.

– Do not provide or conceal or prevent the provision of information about abused children or children at risk of exploitation or violence to families, educational institutions, competent agencies and individuals.

– Stigma and discrimination against children because of their personal characteristics, family circumstances, gender, ethnicity, nationality, beliefs, and religion.

– Selling to children or allowing children to use alcohol, beer, cigarettes, other drugs, stimulants, and unsafe food that is harmful to children.

– Providing Internet services and other services; produce, copy, circulate, operate, distribute, own, transport, store, and trade in publications, toys, games, and other products that serve children but have content that affects children’s healthy development.

– Announcing or disclosing information about the private life and personal secrets of children without the consent of children aged 7 years or older and of the children’s parents or guardians.

– Taking advantage of alternative child care to abuse children; taking advantage of the State’s regimes and policies and the support and assistance of organizations and individuals for children for personal gain.

– Placing service establishments, production establishments, warehouses for goods that cause environmental pollution, are toxic, and have a direct risk of fire or explosion near establishments providing child protection services, educational, medical, cultural establishments, children’s entertainment and recreation facilities, or placing establishments providing child protection services, educational, medical, cultural establishments, and children’s entertainment establishments near service establishments, production establishments, and warehouses storing polluting goods. Environmental pollution, toxic, direct risk of fire and explosion.

– Encroaching and using infrastructure for learning, play, entertainment and child protection service activities for wrong purposes or against the provisions of law.

– Refusal, failure to perform, or incomplete or untimely implementation of support, intervention, and treatment for children at risk or in a dangerous situation, with their body, honor, and dignity damaged.

3. What is the current policy on ensuring children’s health care?
Pursuant to Article 43 of the Law on Children 2016, ensuring children’s health care is stipulated as follows:

– The State has policies appropriate to the socio-economic development conditions of each period to support and ensure that all children receive health care, with priority given to children in special circumstances, children from poor households, near-poor households, ethnic minority children, children living in border communes, mountainous areas, islands and communes with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions.

– The State ensures the implementation of periodic health monitoring measures for pregnant women and children according to age; nutrition care, primary health and vaccination for children; preventing and combating accidents and injuries to children; Advise and support children in taking care of their reproductive and sexual health in accordance with their age as prescribed by law.

– Prioritize consulting, protection, and health care and nutrition for pregnant women, mothers raising children under 36 months of age and children, especially children under 36 months of age, and abused children in accordance with the socio-economic development conditions of each period.

– The State has policies and measures for consultation, screening, diagnosis, and prenatal and neonatal treatment; reduce child mortality, especially infant mortality; Eliminate harmful customs and practices that affect children’s health.

– The State pays and supports the payment of health insurance for children according to the provisions of law on health insurance appropriate to age, target group and in accordance with the socio-economic development conditions of each period.

– The State has policies and measures for children to have access to hygienic water sources and basic hygiene conditions, ensuring food safety according to the provisions of law.

– The State encourages agencies, organizations, families, and individuals to support and invest resources to protect and care for children’s health, with priority given to children in special circumstances.