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You and Yours: Life on furlough; Botox row; Plant delays

01/06/2020

Life on furlough; Botox row; Plant delays

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Life on furlough; Botox row; Plant delays

Falling through the cracks of the furlough scheme - thousands are struggling on no income.

The gardeners waiting months for plants they ordered online.

More than eight million people have been helped by the government's furlough scheme in the past three months.  The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme pays eighty per cent of the salaries of people laid off because of the outbreak.  But it's estimated that up to 500 thousand people who work in hospitality are missing out on that support because they were starting or changing jobs when lockdown began.  We'll speak to UK Hospitality and get a response from the government.

Beauty clinics offering Botox and fillers are pushing to reopen as soon as possible.  The British College of Aesthetic Medicine has gone to the trouble of consulting a barrister to decide if it's safe or not - and the answer is yes, with all the right precautions.  But others in the industry believe it's too soon and not ethical - we'll discuss.

During lockdown many of us have taken to our gardens, and you’d imagine that it must have been a wonderful moment for companies that sell plants online.  In fact whilst they've been very busy, they've been struggling to keep up with orders.  Some customers have been waiting over a month.  We'll hear from some of them, and get a response from the companies involved.

Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Jess Quayle

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