Would you?
Teacher recruitment and training is collapsing especially in the subjects we really, as a country, need most. Science, maths, technology teachers are increasingly thin on the ground.
We are short tens of thousands of nurses and pretty much every other medical professional in the NHS.
Why?
The pay is awful and has been getting worse for ten years or more for many of these jobs.
Ten years ago I visited a school where heads of department were downgrading to smaller rental properties, in worse areas. The idea of ever owning a home was a sick joke.
Think how bad things are now? Pay cuts year after year and a government which tells you that you’re little more than a communist propagandist, or that you are responsible for cancelled operations and waiting times.
The government is responsible for running education and the NHS but have instead spent years slashing wages, while treating people like dirt.
Meanwhile business is desperately short of trained workers and the workforce has been thinned because people are unable to work because of long term illness.
The country needs public services that work, this government doesn’t care if they don’t; so long as it can blame someone else.
Would you work in the public sector?
Because someone has to.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media