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October 27, 2023

Focus on Family-Friendly Spaces – celebrating the sustainable business benefits produced at this pioneering factory

October 2023

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October 18, 2023

Key Audit Deadlines for Chinese New Year 2024

In order to allow time for Chinese New Year 2024 celebrations, the Ethical Toy Program will instruct our accredited firms to not conduct audits and Progress Visits from 29th Jan to 25th Feb 2024. (2 weeks prior to and 2 weeks after Chinese New Year).

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October 4, 2023

Family-Friendly Spaces Sharing Conference 2023: Pursuing the Global Ambition Together

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September 25, 2023

IETP joins hundreds of UK organisations raise an SDG flag to show their support for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

25 September 2023, London

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August 1, 2023

ESCP 建立微信号,加强与中国內地工厂的沟通

Ethical Supply Chain Program 高兴宣布,我们现已启用微信公众号,以加强与中国工厂的沟通及其参与度。微信是中国最受欢迎的社交媒体,于全球拥有超过 9.38 亿活跃用户。

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June 1, 2023

European Parliament voting passes landmark sustainability due diligence directive

This article is taken from a larger piece written by the Responsible Investor, read the full article here.

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May 23, 2023

Gender Equality: Pilot Program Update

Blog, 23rd May 2023, Hong Kong & London

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May 4, 2023

Family-Friendly Spaces program expands to cover 18 factories in China

We are delighted to announce that this summer we are operating more FFS than ever before at 18 factories which will accommodate 691 children, allowing 788 parents to be reunited with their children for the summer.

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May 2, 2023

Worker Survey Paper Now Available

This paper shares the findings of a joint worker survey conducted from October 2021 – March 2023 in labor-intensive manufacturing facilities in exporting countries. The project was a collaboration of six nonprofit social compliance organizations. Workers surveyed worked primarily in Bangladesh, Vietnam, India, Italy, and Turkey. The industries represented include electronics, apparel, toys, textiles, and food & beverages

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March 9, 2023

UNICEF Representative visits IETP-certified Family-Friendly Factory

On Friday the 24th of February, UNICEF Representative to China Ms. Amakobe Sande visited IETP Certified factory, Golden Cup Printing Company in Dongguan, China.We thank Ms. Sande and UNICEF for their support and for their work on Family-Friendly Policy, which has enabled us to develop this ground-breaking IETP Family-Friendly Factory Program.

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March 6, 2023

IETP-member Schleich’s Continued Commitment to Sustainability

We are proud to have Schleich as a member of the ICTI Ethical Toy Program (IETP) and will highlight their achievements and sustainability goals in this article.  The iconic brand has been a member of our program since 2019, and include “The Human being in focus” as one of its core sustainability pillars.

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November 25, 2022

IETP Adopts the United Nations Women’s Empowerment Principles

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November 25, 2022

IETP Adopts the United Nations Women’s Empowerment Principles

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November 24, 2021

核实 ESCP 职员

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May 19, 2021

ESCP's Workshop on Manager and Employee Relations in the Factory

ESCP will host two online workshops for our Factory Certification Program members on Manger and Employee Relations. The workshops aim to give factories the tools to ease the labor shortage and manage the high turnover rates factories are currently facing. FREE tickets are limited, register now!

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October 29, 2018

Introducing Progress Visits

Ongoing training, guidance and support are key to helping factories remain in compliance with Ethical Supply Chain Program (ESCP) standards once auditors have left.

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Building Factory Capability: Lean Manufacturing

To help factories respond to these challenges, IETP organized a free seminar in November 2019 which introduced the idea of lean manufacturing to over 100 participants. Lean manufacturing is a systematic approach to minimizing waste in the production process. Through using tools to plan and execute production, factories can minimize defects and eliminate waste which will increase the productivity and efficiency of a production line, leading to increased profit and competitiveness of a factory.

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Ethical Toy Program completes audit panel review, approving new panel of third-party audit companies

We are working with these companies and, the companies who will exit our panel, to ensure a smooth transition, with no disruption to any of our members. We expect this transition process to take six months. It will involve on-boarding 3 new firms to the panel and the exiting of 2 firms.

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Audit reports now updated with APSCA registration information

Ethical Toy Program audits can only be conducted by either accredited auditors from our approved panel of audit firms or authorized Ethical Toy Program staff members. Our panel of approved audit firms includes ELEVATE, SCSA, SGS and UL.

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Shenzhen - Seminar: Introduction to compliance regulations in Vietnam

IETP is co-hosting a seminar with Shenzhen Toy Industry Association for toy, children & baby products and souvenir manufacturers who are interested in expanding to Vietnam, detail of the seminar please refer to the Chinese page.

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A look at challenges faced by parent workers in Vietnam

Vietnam is an emerging center for toy production; the country is home to the largest community of Ethical Toy Program certified factories outside of China.

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170 Years to achieve gender parity? How supply chain actions can achieve faster progress

“Inequality abounds in schools, workplaces, in government and beyond…if we do not capture the energy and creativity of women we cannot achieve the full potential of our economies and societies,” said Michelle Yeoh, award-winning actress and UN Development Programme (UNDP) Goodwill Ambassador during the Responsible Business Forum in Singapore in 2016.

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CCR CSR and ICTI Ethical Toy Program Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Every child has the right to grow up loved and cared for by their parents. But what if they can’t? An estimated 15 million migrant workers in China – many of whom are factory workers – have left their children behind and only see them once a year. Many others have no choice but to leave their children in dorm rooms during the summer holidays while they work or take them to the factory floor.

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