Child Friendly Spaces
The Centre’s Child-Friendly Space (CFS) programme helps suppliers establish safe, secure childcare facilities at factories and worksites, thus supporting parent workers during their shifts. CFS provides a safe environment where children can play, develop social skills and engage in activities with their parents.
Each summer, there is a surge in children left unsupervised in dorms or work camps – and in some cases, even on production floors or in harvesting fields. Launched in 2015, CFS addresses this urgent childcare gap, keeping children away from hazardous work areas while ensuring they are well cared for. For many migrant workers, it also provides a rare opportunity to spend quality time with their children during school holidays.
While CFS primarily operates in the summer, it can also run year-round or as an after-school centre. For suppliers, CFS helps prevent children from being brought to production areas, reducing compliance risks, including child labour.
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Read real-life impact stories from families and employers in our "Explore Our Work" section.
Download our 2024 Family-Friendly Workplaces Programme Impact and Achievements brochure.
Article: Celebrating the 101st CFS Milestone
Case study: A Child-Friendly Space for Rattan Communities in Indonesia
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Our collaboration with The Centre enables us to bear more responsibility for the wellbeing of the people who workinour purchasing chain and their families, by ensuring children are taken care of while the parents are at work.
(Date: 2021)
We are delighted to partner with The Centre to implement our Family Friendly Spaces (FFS) Programme. This programme is successful because the impacts are measurable and sustainable. Working together, we look forward to achieving even more for parent workers and children in the future.
(Date: 2020)
－Carmel Giblin President & CEO ICTI Ethical Toy Program
At BillerudKorsnäs, we are very happy about the programme and its positive impact. We will have internal discussions on how we are going to scale up in the future.
－Kyle Zhang, Senior Compliance Officer, BillerudKorsnäs on CFS
We expect that the indirect impact of this programme would be more orders from clients as we prove ourselves to be an attractive employer.
(Date: 2020)
－Mr. Sun, the main person in charge of one of the CFS in China
We needed such projects for the satisfaction of our workers. The parents were very happy, especially when they saw the progress their children made during the summer. I believe that the impact is a long term one and a win-win to all parties involved
－General manager of a participating factory in China in 2020
I would like to thank you for guiding us and our supplier Ceyadi during this programme - we never expected it to have so much impact and we are all sincerely touched by the worker stories and feedback of the children. The Centre’s support has been great throughout. We are looking into extending the child friendly spaces further into our Chinese supplier base for next year(s).
－Joy Roeterdink, CSR Manager, Suitsupply
Having a CFS in place helps our company to enhance its reputation and attract talent. For instance, many parent workers pay attention to the education of their children but can hardly access childcare facilities in their workplace, so they are very interested in working in our factory
－Ms. Zhao, Production Manager of Caili factory, which opened a CFS in 2020
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