The focus groups on which these excerpts are based were conducted in 2007 as part of research by the BRAC Research and Evaluation Division with Save the Children UK Bangladesh support into perceptions and practices of child labour, conducted in Nilphamari and Karail in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Further details of the research are available in S. Tariquzzaman and E. Kaiser (2008) Employers’Perceptions of Changing Child Labour Practices in Bangladesh , BRAC Research and Evaluation Division monograph 35, Dhaka: BRAC‐RED ( http://www.bracresearch.org/monographs/Monograph_35%20.pdf ).