The Policy is an initiative of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security with support from the ILO Tackling Child Labour Through Education (TACKLE) Project, funded by the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States.Īs a follow-up to the symposium, additional consultations on the Policy will be held nationally in the coming months after which the draft will be finalized and taken through the parliamentary review process. Thirty participants from key sectors, including the Ministry of Education, Office of the Children’s Advocate, the Jamaica Constabulary Force and the Statistical Institute (STATIN), along with the Jamaica Employers’ Federation, Jamaica Association of Household Workers, and the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions, and NGOs, undertook a critical review of the Draft National Child Labour Policy at the symposium held on 12 June 2012 at Wyndham Hotel, Kingston. Jamaica joined the rest of the world in observing the World Day against Child Labour on 12 June, with a message by Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller, and a one-day symposium on the draft National Policy on Child Labour.
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