How did lord shaftesbury help Victorian children?

Answer 1

He proposed a law.Lord Shaftesbury proposed that children should work for a max of 10 hours.This bill failed but the government reliased that children needed to be protected. A year later the FACTORY ACT was passed.

It was now illegal for kids under 9 to be employed in textile factories

Children between 9 and 13 were still allowed to work up to 12 hours a day.

The Cole mine act was also introduced

This meant women and children were not allowed to work underground .

Lord Shaftesbury was also interested in education for poor people. He was Chairman of the RAGGED SCHOOLS UNION a organisation that was set up for poor children

Answer 2

Lord Shaftesbury fought for better children's rights and to help the homeless children living on the streets of London, after Dr Thomas John Barnardo, showed him at least 73 children sleeping behind a large canvas cover in East End.

Answer 3

Lord Shaftesbury set up the Children's Employment Commission. He campaigned for the reduction in the hours that children worked in factories. He also made it illegal for children under the age of nine to work in textile factories.

Answer 4

Lord Shaftesbury was a politician who improved the lives of children during the Victorian era. After becoming a member of Parliament, he began to take an interest in the plight of poor children after reading newspaper reports about child labor in industry. In 1833, he proposed that children should work for a maximum of 10 hours a day. In 1834, the Factory Act was made law. It was now illegal for children under 9 to be employed in textile factories. He 1842, he helped pass the Coal Mines Act which said that no child or woman should work underground. He was also interested in education for working children. He was chairman of the Ragged Schools Union - an organization that set up over a hundred schools for poor children

Answer 5

he helped Victorian children.