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Covid lockdowns had ‘catastrophic effect’ on UK’s social fabric, report claims
(www.theguardian.com)
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Covid lockdowns had a “catastrophic effect” on the UK’s social fabric and the most disadvantaged are no better off now than at the time of the financial crash, a new report claims.
The country is in danger of sliding back into the divisions of the Victorian era, marked by a widening gap between the mainstream and the poorest in society, according to an inquiry by the centre-right thinktank the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ).
About 13.4 million people lead lives affected by family fragility, stagnant wages, poor housing, chronic ill health and crime, the centre says.
The CSJ’s Social Justice Commission’s report, Two Nations: the State of Poverty in the UK, argues that the most disadvantaged in Britain are no better off than 15 years ago.
“Lockdown policy poured petrol on the fire that had already been there in the most disadvantaged people’s lives, and so far no one has offered a plan to match the scale of the issues.
It also heard from more than 350 small charities, social enterprises and policy experts, and the commission travelled to three nations of the UK and to more than 20 towns and cities.
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