Child Labour Prevention & Remediation
Services to help your business monitor, prevent and remediate child labour in all its forms.
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The Centre is an established leader in supporting companies to effectively prevent and remediate child labour cases at factories, farms and raw material sourcing sites in their supply chains. We offer a comprehensive set of services to help businesses identify, prevent, eliminate and remediate child labour in all its forms. We act fast when a suspected case is reported to us and aim to provide the best possible solution to the child, while also supporting the business in preventing future child labour from occurring. We work across all sectors and at all tiers to address child labour risks in global supply chains.
As part of the UN International Year for the elimination of child labour, The Centre has developed a Joint Action Pledge to strengthen the protection of children’s rights by bringing companies together to accelerate action to address child labour in global supply chains. Click here to find out more.
Contact us to learn more about our child labour prevention and remediation services, or to discuss a customised solution for your company.
Our child labour prevention training equips buyers and suppliers with the tools and knowledge needed to cascade strong and effective child labour prevention measures down your supply chains, from managing subcontractors, labour agents to in-house age verification and young worker protection. The training can be customised for brand CEOs and representatives, sourcing staff, managers of factories and production sites, HR staff, auditors, production floor managers, community leaders and lower tier actors.
When we are notified of a suspected child labour case, we arrive on site within 72 hours to conduct the rapid assessment, speaking to all concerned parties directly (including the child, guardians and factory management). Tailored to the needs of the child, our child labour remediation programme covers all aspects of remediation from start to finish, incorporating elements including selecting schooling or appropriate vocational training, offering financial support where required, and monitoring the child’s development over time. We also work closely with employers on cases involving young workers in child labour situations (e.g. in hazardous work, or working excessive hours and night shifts) and support them in creating solutions to protect young workers and eliminating child labour situations. This includes but is not limited to identifying non-hazardous positions suitable for young workers, ensuring hazardous positions are off limits to young workers or rendering them non-hazardous where possible.
We undertake a comprehensive assessment of your current management systems, policies and practices covering child labour issues, including those covering child labour prevention and remediation, and develop customised guidelines in line with international standards and national laws, addressing issues from risk prevention, daily operations and monitoring to remediation processes for child labour. To date, our policy and guideline development has served companies and their supply chain actors, industry initiatives and overarching programmes of partners.
We conduct a rapid assessment to identify child labour risks in supply chains, which allows our clients to understand where potential cases of child labour could be occurring. Findings are presented with practical recommendations on mitigating these risks. Our assessment is tailored to our client’s needs and can be conducted with a focus on child labour or in combination with other risks such as forced labour.
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To date, we have The Centre’s service to highly professional, reliable and efficient, with The Centre always on standby to help gather time-sensitive information, draw up tailored remediation programmes and implement them from start to finish.
(Date: 2021)
－ASOS
We had a child labour prevention policy in place for years and have been accepted by clients and CSR auditors. However, today we found out that our policy and procedures are rather basic, and we will need to improve it with higher preventive measures for child labour prevention.
－An HR staff from a factory in Vietnam who worked with The Centre in 2020
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