Learning Paper

Reframing Child Labour Due Diligence

For businesses & investors in increasingly regulated supply chains

How to adopt impactful approaches while mitigating risks to supply chains & investments

Investors, analysts, and companies today face growing costs and challenges when addressing child labour in supply chains, with current human rights due diligence strategies often failing to mitigate the associated material risks.

Reframing Child Labour Due Diligence

This paper was developed by Global Child Forum, Fifty Eight, and the Church Investors Group.

It summarises learning from an investor and company roundtable series exploring how due diligence, ESG data and analyst requirements can be re-framed in ways which will lead to faster and more sustainable actions for the elimination of the worst forms of child labour in supply chains.

By engaging in the approaches outlined, investors and companies can better mitigate risk and avoid unintended consequences.

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Executive Summary

Reframing Child Labour Due Diligence

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Full Report

Reframing Child Labour Due Diligence

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Guidance & Best Practices

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Nina Vollmer

Director Child Rights and Sustainability

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As the organisation’s senior expert, Nina conducts research and supports companies on how to improve their understanding of, and impact on children’s lives. She develops and works with the tools and services that Global Child Forum offers, including the Business Academy, Scorecard Feedback service, guidance and best practices. Nina also supports with content creation for events and communications. With responsibility for the methodology behind the Corporate Sector and Children’s Rights Benchmark, Nina is the appointed spokesperson for benchmark activities, and regularly speaks at key events and conferences. Nina holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from Lund University (Sweden), and has worked both nationally and internationally with human rights and development within the NGO sector.
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Matthew Goodwin

Head of Sustainable Investing

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Matthew is pioneering a new role at Global Child Forum as Head of Sustainable Investing, responsible for building Global Child Forum’s relationship with the financial services sector and ensuring that our sustainability data on children’s rights is made available to investors, asset managers and asset owners, helping them integrate children’s rights into their operations and investment decision-making process. Prior to joining Global Child Forum, he spent eight years at Lloyds Banking Group in London. Matthew studied Law and French at Université Paul Cézanne, Aix Marseille III and The University of Sheffield.
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