Recherchetool für Materialien Social Auditing and Ethical Certification Persistent problems have been documented in the effectiveness of social auditing and ethical certification schemes when it comes to preventing, detecting and addressing forced labour. In recent years, the social compliance industry has awoken to these limitations and there is growing discussion of the need to improve forced labour detection and remediation systems. To date, reform efforts have centred around improving ethical certification standards and audit methodologies on paper, but there is little evidence that incremental improvements are leading to meaningful change on the ground. While there is growing acknowledgement of the social compliance regime’s flaws, there has been less attention to how these gaps could be meaningfully addressed. With that in mind, this brief explores: How can social auditing and certification be discreetly regulated or reformed to play a role in eradicating forced labour? What is the potential to reinvest the cost of these mechanisms into more effective solutions? Scope: 42 pagesReference: free of charge to Download from Re:structure Lab back
