Women and Children’s affairs Division

✔ Implementation of activities in order to eliminate Child Labour

– Conducting awareness programs for public officials and the general public.
– Monitoring of Department officer’s contribution towards district and divisional Child Development Committees.
– Directing the child labour victims into a formal education system.

✔ Execution of law on maternity benefits to private and semi-government sector employees.

✔ Execution of law related to the employment of women and young persons

– Conducting raids on Child Labour and night inspections.
– Regulation of issuing night work approvals to industrial undertaking.
– Compliant investigations on employment of women, young persons and children.
– Conducting awareness programmes on the law.
– Conducting Training of trainers (TOT) programmes for public officers to uplift the social responsibility towards the rights of women and children

✔ Conduct special programmes for enhancing female employment.

✔ Commemoration of International Women’s Day, World Day Against Child Labour and International Children’s Day.

✔ Maintaining Hostel facilities at reasonable rates for the female employees of the Koggala and Katunayake export processing zones.

✔ Conducting surveys on working women and children.