Will Ford: Teachers and NHS staff being forgotten in Brexit chaos – here’s how and why
Other issues don’t cease to be. Like the NHS and education – key issues which are now non-issues in our Brexit-obsessed society. While civil servants are re-deployed in aid of Brexit negotiations, where does this leave the departments they’ve left? Understaffed. On the back-burner.
The Government has missed their target for teacher recruitment for the last five years. The story is the same in the NHS, with huge numbers of posts unfilled, and recruitment drives proving limited in their success.
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Hide AdA lack of teachers and healthcare professionals can only serve to reduce the quality of two aspects of our society that we used to be so proud of. Whether Brexit itself will benefit or hinder education and the NHS is besides the point.