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We hear from frontline officers about this year's strains on enforcement
Posted 10 December 2020 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Opinion|Enforcement Practice|National
OPINION: Frontline trading standards professionals describe how COVID-19 changed workloads, priorities and enforcement pressures, revealing the strain on small teams as they adapted services during a national crisis.
<strong>What impact has the COVID crisis had on your day-to-day work? </strong>"From our services point of view, our team was small before COVID and we were struggling to provide trading standards services. However, since the beginning of the crisis our team have had to prioritise COVID complaints and enquires, which has taken up about 95% of our time. That has resulted in ver...
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