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We are delighted to be joined by the Centre for Child-Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility (CCR CSR) – experts in improving the lives of children, young workers, and working migrant parents and implementation partner for the Ethical Toy Program’s Family-Friendly Spaces.

We are delighted to be joined by the Centre for Child-Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility (CCR CSR) – experts in improving the lives of children, young workers, and working migrant parents and implementation partner for the Ethical Toy Program’s Family-Friendly Spaces.

We are delighted to announce the appointment of a new Non-Executive Director to the ICTI Ethical Toy Program Governing Board.

We are currently preparing our Family-Friendly Workplaces for this years intake. We have 17 factories and nearly 800 children participating in our 2022 Summer Family-Friendly Spaces (FFS) program.

This page provides regular updates from IETP on the actions we are taking to respond to COVID-19 and manage the impacts of the virus on our buyer and factory members, staff members, and partners. IETP is closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation and we will review our processes and update them as required.

To address Vietnam suppliers' need of enhancing their understanding on health and safety issues mentioned in the reports of 2023 and provide further details of the HSE training hosted on September 24, 2022, IETP is going to host an in-person, free training specially for toy factories' selected employees.

This article was originally published in the October 2021 edition of the Toy Book. Click here to read the full issue!

This article was originally published in the May 2021 edition of the Toy Book. Click here to read the full issue

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This article was originally published in the June 2022 edition of the Toy Book. Click here to read the full issue!

The Financial Times ran an article entitled 'China factories use childcare offer to lure migrant workers' (paywall). This article covered our worker well-being programs to support workers with left-behind children.

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The specialist responsible sourcing program, ICTI Ethical Toy Program (IETP) is pleased to announce several promotions within the organization. These promotions reflect their significant contributions to the organization.

The manufacturing workforce in China is comprised mostly of internal migrant workers. As factories have started to resume operations, some of their workforce that traveled home for Chinese New Year may not have returned to their positions as soon as they wished to be because of disruption caused by COVID-19.

The protection of workers in the toy industry and the introduction of ethical product standards is an important issue that ICTI's Ethical Toy Program has set itself. But how can companies become a member of the program and what benefits does it bring? Carmel Giblin, CEO & President at Ethical Toy Program, explain this and much more in an interview with Spielwarenmesse.

The LEGO Group has become the latest company to join the Ethical Toy Program as a Buyer Member. LEGO will use our Connect platform to monitor and manage their suppliers certified in our program, as well as gaining access to insights and support from our expert team.

The ICTI Ethical Toy Program’s new audit checklist and updated certification methodology, developed in response to industry consultation and feedback, are launching this week.

The ICTI Ethical Toy Program (IETP) team will be available for 1-on-1 discussions with individuals who are keen to learn about social compliance standards, the business benefits we bring, ask questions on individual cases that require our advice, or share feedback with us between 8-10 April2019.