THE response of McDonald’s to the discovery that trafficking and exploitation were taking place in one of its restaurants in Cambridgeshire has been “poor”, the director for modern slavery at CCLA, Dame Sara Thornton, wrote in The Times on Tuesday. There had also been “a lack of engagement with CCLA as an investor after we contacted them about rectifying damage done to the victims”. The franchisees who had run the branch during the exploitation now had almost 50 branches between them, she wrote. CCLA, which began as the Church of England investment fund, is now the UK’s largest charity fund manager. “In addition, last year, we started our partnership with Unseen, a leading expert organisation that specialises in addressing modern slavery issues.

Source: The Times May 09, 2025 05:59 UTC