The Austerity Audit

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The Austerity Audit: Episode 2

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How austerity hit social care and the justice system.

As Covid-19 sends the UK into its deepest ever recession, Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, asks whether lessons can learned from 10 years of austerity.

As the UK heads into its deepest ever recession following Covid-19, Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, asks whether lessons can learned from 10 years of austerity. In this second episode of the Austerity Audit he analyses two areas which were hit more severely than most - local government and it's provision of social care and the Ministry of Justice. He travels to Liverpool which was particularly badly hit after then chancellor George Osborne announced swingeing cuts following the banking crisis. And he hears from those affected by the cuts to prison budgets and the probation service.

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Paul Johnson offers an in-depth analysis of the UK's decade of austerity.

Paul Johnson, the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, asks whether lessons can be learned from the UK's last economic crisis and a decade of austerity.

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