The CCLA Modern Slavery UK Benchmark 2024 shows that the number of leading UK companies finding evidence or indicators of modern slavery has increased. More UK companies are taking steps to address the issue, with average scores rising. But there is significant room for improvement in corporate responses to modern slavery, especially in helping its victims.
Our annual Find it, Fix it, Prevent it report outlines progress made by investors to combat modern slavery in company supply chains. Supported by investors with collective assets under management and advisory of £15 trillion, it has three complementary workstreams: corporate engagement, public policy and developing better modern slavery data.
Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF) and CCLA, supported by investors representing £1.6 trillion AUM, have written to the chairs of 76 FTSE 100 companies that have not held a vote on their climate transition plans in the past three years setting out their expectations ahead of next year’s AGM season.
Delegates at a recent roundtable on modern slavery in the construction sector acknowledged that the risks of modern slavery in the sector are significant and increasing, and that there is a pressing need for the sector to take action.
