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THE Civil Service is too understaffed to cope with the demands of Brexit, a union warned yesterday as PM Theresa May formally triggered Article 50.
The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union said that the civil service, which is already under strain after seven years of spending cuts, will struggle to navigate the challenges of withdrawing from the EU.
On top of this a recent National Audit Office (NAO) report also found that departments “do not know what skills they have, whether these are in the right place and what additional skills they need.”
As extremist hate spreads and disillusion deepens, the labour movement must offer more than resistance — it must offer a future, writes MATT WRACK, general secretary of NASUWT – The Teachers’ Union
With 121,000 vacancies and 44.8% of staff feeling unwell from work stress, the NHS 10-year plan will not succeed unless the government takes immediate action to retain existing staff, writes ANNETTE MANSELL-GREEN
