LoginAusterity's impacts will outlive it
Austerity has had a critical and possibly irreversible impact on trading standards
Posted 27 December 2018 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Opinion|Legal and Policy|National
OPINION: Austerity has reshaped trading standards in ways that may outlast the policy itself, reducing capacity, weakening local protection and leaving the profession to manage long-term structural consequences.
“A decade after the financial crash, people need to know that the austerity it led to is over and that their hard work has paid off.” I imagine that particular part of the Prime Minister’s 2018 Tory Conference speech echoing around empty trading standards offices across the country. Maybe it caught the ear of one of the few remaining officers who then peered disbelievingly around at 10 years’ ...
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