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IN REMEDIATION RESPONSE
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GAPS
IN REMEDIATION RESPONSE
Immediate Actions after Discovering Child Labor
When the bottlenecks mentioned in the previous section lead to child labor prevention failure , immediate response very much falls into the hands of auditors – the first responders who uncover child labor . The actions they take in the first 12 hours of discovering a child labor case is usually determined by the instructions they receive from their employers and / or clients , but it is also influenced by their training .
• Auditors who received child labor training tend to collect more information and take more action when discovering child labor
The survey found that there is a significant positive correlation between the child labor training , the depth of information auditors collect and the actions they take after discovering child labor . Even when controlling for age , experience and gender , the auditors who received child labor training tended to collect more information about the child in the first few hours after discovering a case . There is also a significant positive correlation between the child labor training and the extent of usual procedures / actions taken during the first 12 hours . The auditors who received training on child labor tend to take more actions immediately after discovering a case ( even when controlling for the age , experience and gender ).
Looking at the usual procedures / actions taken by the auditors during the first 12 hours of discovering a child labor case , it is interesting to see that for the top three actions , there are quite a few similarities between China and other countries , which also seems to be the standard procedures . However , significantly more auditors from China secure the records of child labor violation and stop the child from work than other countries . The least common actions are even less typical for China than other countries . The least common actions taken at the earliest stage of discovering child labor could be the gaps in an effective immediate response that ensures the child ’ s safety before the remediation process begins . For example , third-party organizations are involved in only a few cases after discovering child labor . This may be explained due to the lack of social workers and organizations that have the experience and competence to work on child labor and provide guidance for auditors and factories on what to do in the case of child labor .
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