Years of austerity left UK 'hugely unprepared' for COVID pandemic, report says

The TUC said funding cuts left health and social care "dangerously understaffed" and reduced its capacity to respond to the COVID-19 crisis.
Multiple years of pay caps and pay freezes undermined safe staffing levels in health and social care, which impeded recruitment and increased staff turnover, the report said. Public services capacity was damaged by "steep cuts" to almost every part of the public sector, it added. When the pandemic began in 2020, spending per capita was lower than in 2010 in social care, transport, housing, childcare, schools, higher education, police, fire services, and environmental protection, according to the TUC, the federation of trade unions.

https://news.sky.com/story/years-of-austerity-left-uk-hugely-unprepared-for-covid-pandemic-report-says-12896554

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