The Centre is a leading expert in helping businesses prevent and remediate child labour across supply chains - spanning factories, farms and raw material sourcing sites. Our comprehensive services support companies in identifying, addressing and eliminating child labour in all its forms.
When a suspected case is reported, we act quickly to find the best possible solution for the child while helping businesses prevent future occurrences. We work across all sectors and supply chain tiers, mitigating child labour risks at a global scale.
For detailed insights on our 2024 child labour remediation work, please read: "1000 Reports of Child Labour: Lessons, Insights, Reflections from The Centre's Child Labour Remediation Work"
Building strong, local networks
Leveraging existing resources and initiatives
Engaging with local governments
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The Centre’s Due Diligence Principles for Child Labour Remediation provide clear guidance for companies on:
Developing robust child labour policies
Establishing monitoring capacity in sourcing countries
Preventing or mitigating business practices that heighten child labour risks
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 and 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 eliminate 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 risk 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 for 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.
Beyond Pledges on Child Labour: It's Not Just Human Rights, It's Your Business Too
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As a company connected to the copper-cobalt supply chain in the DRC, we have a responsibility to act and we know that responsibility comes with involvement, which is why we partnered with the Child Rights Action Hub.
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)
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.
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