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(c) There should be close collaboration between the employment and labour inspection services, the public medical and social services, and the appropriate departments of undertakings in supervising the employment conditions of young workers, in a combined effort to obtain for children and young persons suitable job assignments; (d) Joint supervision by the employment and social service authorities of the working and living conditions of young persons employed in private households or institutions; (g) Arrangements should be made to obtain the full co-operation of local and educational authorities and of private and public social agencies with Labour Inspectors in order to supervise employment in street trading and similar occupations; and (/) Employers should be required to facilitate the task of Inspectors by placing at their disposal the special register provided for in the Minimum Age (Industry) Conventions, 1919 and 1937, and in the Minimum Age (Non-industrial Employment) (Revised) Convention, 1937, and all other useful documents which give precise information on children and young persons in their employment and on the conditions under which they are employed. I. Right of Association 33. Young workers should have the same freedom as adults to join the trade-union of their own choosing as from their entry to employment. VI. Administration of Protective Policies 34. The Conference considers that an adequate and co-ordinated framework of law and administration is essential for the application by Governments of the broad social policies necessary for the full protection of children and young persons, and that for this purpose it is necessary—(a) To draw up the laws and regulations proposed above in a co-ordinated manner so as to cover all the problems and revise them periodically so as to ensure consistency and progressively harmonize statutory provisions with current trends; (b) To organize competent, specialized services to administer the proposed social programmes, and provide these services with the requisite authority, sufficient resources, and adequate, professionally qualified personnel; (c) To put into execution the various parts of the unified national programme, as defined above, in an integrated manner through satisfactory methods of co-ordination suited to the administrative structure in each country; (d) To ensure by appropriate means a guiding policy in the protection of children and young persons so that the programmes relating to each problem may be continually revised and improved with a thorough understanding of their total needs; (e) To stimulate the interest and obtain the support and participation of the general public as well as appropriate organized movements representing broad sectors of public opinion and especially youth movements with social aims, in order to achieve a complete realization of these protective policies.

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