Training and capacity building in selected areas will assist in addressing child labour in general and specific types of child labour. This should include:
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Labour inspectors should receive training on how to address child labour. This should include training targeting specifically vulnerable or difficult sectors, such as domestic sector. Lead institution: DL. New policy? Elaboration of existing policy. Once off cost: minimal cost to design training material. Recurrent cost: moderate. Time line: within one year of adoption of policy. ILO funding: to cover once off cost.
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Organisations running help lines, including a labour (e-governance line) call centre, should be informed fully about child labour issues, including trafficking and CSEC, through appropriate training materials and operations manuals. Lead institution: DL*. Secondary institutions: Organisations running help lines, NGOs, DSD. New policy? Yes. Once off costs: minimal. Recurrent cost: nil. Time line: To be introduced within one year of adoption of policy. ILO funding: to cover once off cost.
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The quality and content of training on the prevention of trafficking, prosecution of traffickers and protecting the rights of victims, including and especially child victims for law enforcement personnel, immigration and customs officials, prosecutors and judges, as well as other relevant officials and non-governmental stakeholders must be improved. Lead institution: DSD. Secondary institutions: DJ, DNP, SAPS, DHA, DrSD (by addressing trafficking and child labour more generally in their training materials programmes). New policy? Yes. Once off cost: moderate. Recurrent cost: moderate. Time line: within two years of adoption of policy. ILO funding: to cover costs within the first two years; and to review basic training material used by SAPS re dealing with Child Victims also address the position of child victims of trafficking.
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Officials of DrSD, DH, DL, DrE and DHA should be trained in ways of detecting other potentially serious cases of child labour and what action to take when it is found. Lead institution: DSD. Affected departments: DH, DrSD, DL, DrE, DHA. New policy? Yes. Once off costs: moderate. Recurrent cost: moderate. Time line: To be introduced within two years of adoption of policy.
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Training materials and programmes of law enforcement agencies should be adapted to prime them to seek and prosecute adults using the children or benefiting from the children's illegal activities (if any) – see (56). An assessment is also necessary whether there are sufficient opportunities within existing training programmes to present such training and, if not, such training sessions should be extended. Lead institution, investigations: SAPS. Lead institution, prosecution: DJ. New policy? Yes. Once off cost: minimal. Recurrent cost: moderate to significant saving, if effective, as costed in the Child Justice Bill process. Regarding children involved in commercial sexual exploitation, such training has already been budgeted for. Time line: within two years of adoption of policy. ILO funding: to assist in the once-off cost of designing training material.
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Training, manuals and guidelines on the IDP process should encourage the prioritised provision of basic water and energy services to households facing the biggest difficulties. These documents could also highlight the problems faced by households furthest away from such resources and time taken by household members (including children) in fetching them. Lead institution: DPLG. Secondary institutions: LG (implementation); DWAF* (basic water services); DME (basic energy services). New policy? Elaboration of existing policy. Once off cost: moderate. Recurrent cost: minimal. Time line: within two years of adoption of policy. ILO funding: to cover once-off costs.
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Information on the specific needs and problems of working children and the relevant elements of a Child Labour Action Programme and the applicable legislation should be introduced in the training of teachers, included in the school curriculum (life skills) and disseminated to managers of schools, teachers and governing bodies in different languages and at appropriate levels of simplicity. Given the relationship between poverty and failure in education there should also be curriculum development in this regard. The material and concept should be injected into the life skills programme. Lead institution: DrE; Secondary institutions: NGOs, Trade Unions. New policy? No. Once off costs: minimal. Recurrent costs: Minimal. This has been budgeted for in the roll out of curriculum training. . Time line: To be introduced within two years of adoption of policy.
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Develop training materials for officials and NGOs that are likely to come into contact with 15-17 year olds involved in hazardous work or other WFCL, regarding alternative employment options for them. See also (111). Lead institution: DL. Secondary institution: DrSD. New policy? Elaboration of existing policy. Once off cost: moderate. Recurrent cost: minimal. Time line: within two years of adoption of policy. ILO funding: to cover once off costs.
| 4.14Provision of childcare facilities
Where there are inadequate childcare facilities or a lack of capacity in the household to care for younger children, adults sometimes have to rely on a child to take care of younger siblings. This practice usually impacts negatively on the caregiving child’s education. Younger siblings cared for by a child may also be exposed to hazards because of the youth of the carer.
In some cases, because they lack alternatives, adults are forced, to take a child with them to work. If adequate facilities for the child are not available at the workplace, the child can suffer from lack of proper care and exposure to occupational hazards. The provision of childcare facilities will help to address these problems. It will also provide more opportunities for mothers to seek employment, thus relieving poverty.
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Appropriate strategies should be found for provision of childcare facilities, especially in sectors and areas where children often have to look after their younger siblings, with a focus on rural poor. The Early Childhood Development (ECD) Programme of the Department of Education aims to provide such facilities for Grade 0/R children for the last year before school. However, effective provincial implementation of this programme must be speeded up and supported financially. Workplace-based child-care facilities should be encouraged. Lead institution: DSD*. Secondary institutions: DrE (grade 0/R), DL (workplace-based provision), LG (regarding crèche facilities funded or provided by local authorities). New policy? Elaboration of existing policy. Recurrent cost: moderate to substantial. Time line: To be introduced within three year of adoption of policy. Note: The feasibility of a government programme to fund or provide ECD services is being assessed in the context of a chapter on this issue in the Children's Bill. This action step must be amended in accordance with the decision regarding that chapter.
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