Child Labour in Supply Chains

Child Labour in
Supply chains

Table of Contents
In what circumstances can working be beneficial to children?.......................................................2
Can child labour help children and their families escape poverty? Can you find some examples? 2
Can child labour keep a child and their family in poverty? How? What are the long term effects
that child labour can have on a child and its family?.......................................................................2
Consider the social, economic, mental and physical effects............................................................3
How might increasing trade openness make it harder to trace and monitor the use of child labour
in complex global supply chains?....................................................................................................3
Who should be responsible for child labour in supply chains?.......................................................3
What might be some of the social economic legal and organisational challenges of enforcing a
complete or partial ban on child labour?..........................................................................................4
Imagine you had to find potential solutions to resolve the issue of child labour in supply chains.
What solutions might you propose and why?..................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

In what circumstances can working be beneficial to children?
Working can have various benefits to children in regard of suitable policy and effective
responses that should be understand and also tends to foster prominent benefits. Working can be
beneficial in few contexts like economic factor which is important in suitable extreme poverty or
in severe crisis as money is required regarding the survival (Cho and et. al., 2019). Despite from
this, most of the children work in order to support poor families and become the earning member
in their family as children from the poor family tends to pay their school fees by working in free
time. Along with this, some children in developing countries tends to help in family business that
helps in assisting the overall process of the development of product. Hence, child labour is cheap
and if family has sick family member then child can become the prominent source of earning.
Can child labour help children and their families escape poverty? Can you
find some examples?
Poverty is considered as the most important cause of child labour and also deprive children
from achieving suitable skills and schooling. Moreover, the poor children tend to grow as
unskilled workers and also tends to earn minimum amount of wages in adulthood. Child labour
in helpful for those families who are very poor and also have low income. In this context, child
labour brings number of risk and hazardous health issues to children which are dangerous for the
employment also vulnerable to mental and physical illness of children (Nakamura and et. al.,
2018). For instance, in various areas or undeveloped countries, poverty is quite high by which
children tends to work for their survival as it is only way for their families to escape from
poverty.
Can child labour keep a child and their family in poverty? How? What are
the long term effects that child labour can have on a child and its family?
Through child labour children tends to provide financial help to their families which help
them in order to overcome from the poverty factors. In regard of this, children tend to work in
order to support their family and also prevent them from poverty. Hence, it is being analysed that
children tends to help their families to overcome from poverty by working in young age. For this,
there are huge amount of long term effects of child labour over the children as it tends to destroy
their health factors and harm them on the basis of developing major diseases among them