Sentences with phrase «ensure child labour»

Daimler has pledged to investigate its supply chain to ensure child labour is not being used to power its electric vehicles.

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ISEAL member standards are also working to tackle issues such as child labour, and to ensure workers receive fair wages and other benefits.

We choose to source fair trade certified organic ingredients wherever possible as part of our internal social justice policy to ensure there is no child labour used, above average wages paid, and education and health care benefits provided to provided to farmers.»

In addition, Ms Mardirossian says the company is strongly focused on sustainable and ethical sourcing; it is taking steps to ensure that appropriate working conditions and no child labour are used to manufacture its products in emerging economies.

I'm glad that the institutional innovations of Labour — Youth Offending Teams and the Youth Justice Board — both exist (for the time being anyway) and are able to do their valuable work in providing pre-sentencing support and advice, and where necessary, working to ensure young people in the secure estate are treated as children and that the secure estate recognises their particular needs and vulnerabilities as far as possible.

`' I think the institutions responsible for curbing child labour and ensuring the best interest of the child have failed woefully.

The MPs also called for the full implementation of the National Plan of Action on the elimination of the worse form of Child Labour to ensure that the practice is curtailed.

The fact that companies such as Tesco and Marshalls have been lobbying for UK businesses to disclose the steps they are taking to ensure that their supply chains are free of slavery and child labour banishes this myth.

The shadow education secretary was taken to task over Labour's pledge to ensure that no pupil is in a class larger than 30 children in the first three years of primary school.

Over recent days we've also heard my shadow cabinet colleagues, Emma Reynolds and Tristram Hunt, talk about how a Labour government will ensure we get the house building we need to strengthen our economy and improve people's quality of life, and about how we raise standards in our schools to ensure our children are equipped to succeed.

As a farming community which engages in cocoa and crop farming and also share borders with la Cote d'Ivoire, the first lady called on the people of Bia West to join forces with government to work together to ensure that farms are not worked by any labour that is believed to be trafficked or involving child labour.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has called on the Labour Party to help poverty proof the school day and ensure that no child is denied access to education opportunities on the basis of their parents» ability to pay.

Her devotion to her two children and three stepchildren, coupled with her commitment to equality, led her to ensure that Labour's Sure Start Children's Centres extended parenting support as well as childcare to families in every neighbchildren and three stepchildren, coupled with her commitment to equality, led her to ensure that Labour's Sure Start Children's Centres extended parenting support as well as childcare to families in every neighbChildren's Centres extended parenting support as well as childcare to families in every neighbourhood.

«Labour wants to ensure the national curriculum sets clear expectations for the knowledge and skills children and young people should reach by a certain age,» he said.

We will ensure there is universal childcare to give all children a good start in life, allowing greater sharing of caring responsibilities and removing barriers to women participating in the labour market.

Headteachers were particularly buoyed by Rayner's promise to «ensure again that under Labour, every child matters», a throwback to the flagship education strategy enacted by New Labour.

«Labour will fiercely oppose this top - down, costly reorganisation of our schools, which nobody wants and schools don't need, ensure there is proper oversight of all our schools, and put local parents and communities at the heart of decisions when it comes to their children's schools.»

Lucy Powell, Labour's shadow education secretary, commenting on the investigations, said: «Ministers have a basic responsibility to ensure that children are kept safe, and yet despite warning after warning, they have dragged their feet on this very serious issue, leaving children in unregistered schools where they could be in harm's way.

The primary focus of the label is to ensure that rug and carpets are made with child - free labour and that the children of artisan weavers in India, Nepal and Pakistan get to go to school.