Materiality and Risk assessment

Materiality refers to the most important impacts that the company has on children’s rights and well-being; the impacts that affect children as stakeholders, not simply to a company’s bottom line. GRI provides the most widely used global sustainability standard that enables companies to track and publicly disclose their sustainability impacts and performance, including on human rights issues – information that is increasingly of interest to investors, consumers, employees and other stakeholders. However, reporting and disclosure on children’s rights-related issues (beyond child labour) is still underdeveloped.  Companies must  develop robust indictators that will enable them and others to measure and evaluate corporate performance.  One such set of indicators of governance and core operations is “Materiality and Risk Assessment.”

External Publication
Children’s rights and business Interview Christoffer Falkman- TOP-TOY

Save the Children is helping the leading Nordic toy and children’s products retailer to assess all their impact on children, from supplier to toy store. Christoffer Falkman is the Sustainability Specialist at TOP-TOY. Children’s rights and business videos

External Publication
Children’s rights and business Interview Klas Balkow- Clas Ohlson

Clas Ohlson is a leading hardware retailer in Sweden with over 200 stores in five countries. They source almost 70% of their products from Asia. Save the Children has supported Clas Ohlson with a child rights focused assessment of their entire value chain and continues to offer on-site support to factories in China. Klas Balkow is the CEO of Clas Ohlson. Children’s rights and business videos