The newsletter is published by Understanding Children's Work, a United Nations Inter-Agency Research Cooperation Project on Child Labour. The newsletter is designed to provide updates of project research, activities and events at regular intervals. It was launched in June 2007, and since then it has been regularly published quarterly. The archive contains all issues to date in PDF format.

A review of selected social science materials on child work produced in the last two decades reveal the changing trends and increasing diversity in the understanding of child work. Such changes and diversity of ideas are reflective of the disparate array of stakeholders and their varying, and sometimes contradicting, views on the subject. This part discusses what I consider as the dominating themes in the discourse on child work in the Philippines based on a review of selected social science materials produced in the last twenty years.