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All of the linked post seems more justified now than it did at the time.
The social system is stretched far beyond capacity. Successive governments have presided over sustained real terms spending cuts across too many departments.
This has implications for everything from a GP surgery to a Prison. A school to a jobcentre.
A care home to a police station.
It has implications for public servants too.
Everyone from a nurse to a soldier.
A teacher to a social worker.
A tax officer to a probation officer.
A speech therapist to a council worker.
A firefighter to a police officer.
The failings within the system are as a direct result of policy that has proven to be impractical, unworkable, unsustainable, illogical, not funded properly and not thought through properly.
The trouble is that Government policy has been relentlessly based on a set of assumptions about peoples lives which paint an overly simplistic and unrepresentative picture. It a one size fits all, ideal world view where individual, family unit and organisational complications are not taken into account. Policy is often riddled with false premises on this basis which somewhat inevitably leads to the accusation that the government is out of touch as regards so many public policy areas.
Alas I have more than a lingering suspicion that such debacles as prisoners being released from prisons in error are just a mere tip of the iceberg.
It has been patently obvious for decades now that the prison system is not fit for purpose in any shape or form. For a start too many prisons are overcrowded, drug ridden, crime ridden, violence ridden, unhygienic and chronically inefficient and ineffective.
The number of prison officers is vastly outnumbered by the number of prisoners.
A quite ludicrous and outrageous state of affairs that will inevitably lead to chaos.
It is simply not good enough to say may ALL prisoners rot in hellish conditions.
Reoffending rates are way too high.
At some point the majority of them will see their sentences end and be released back into the community. We have a rehabilitation network that relies on charity to do much of its best work. But we should not need overstretched charity to oblige that role.
The penal and probation system should be properly funded and organised to ensure rehabilitation is effective i.e that those who exit prison are far better people when they depart jail than when they first arrived.
That cause is not aided by the aforementioned prison culture.
Yes prison is about punishment but it also has to be about protecting the public as much at the point of prisoner release as prisoner incarceration. That means ensuring lessons have been learnt by the inmate to a point where the prospect of reoffending is genuinely low.
Investment in the prison network and all that it should seek to achieve has been utterly derisory and insufficient with increasing regularity and severity of consequence.
But the prison system is not alone in its abject state.
Public servants are being asked to do far too much. Running around trying to achieve a million things at once with poor quantity and quality of resource, insufficient time and an information overload that is completely unsustainable. An endless chasing of ones own tail in the futile pursuit of the interminably impossible. This is happening in all areas.
Hospitals, schools, courts, passport offices, care homes, police stations, benefit centres and lots more besides. Mistakes are happening everywhere all the time. The human cost is considerable but not always brought out into the public domain.
Ordinary people are suffering through error. Error not deliberate in nature but a consequence of arms of our social system being cut to within an inch of their lives in terms of actual funding. And the government response is to complain there is a lack of productivity and efficiency on the basis that people don't work smart enough as if to say the workers should be doing more work with less time and less quality and quantity of resource. It's the same old broken record of failure with no government of any persuasion coming up with sensible answers. At least in part because sensible answers now run the risk of being pretty much impossible.
And why?
Because costs of anything and everything are rising existentially.
Not just for individuals and families although that of course is an ever worsening and obvious problem. I tend to refer instead however to the cost of existence because that effects everything and everybody.
For example a hospital needs everything from X-ray machines to stethoscopes. Beds to drips. Defibrillators to gauzes. Ventilators to blankets. Nurses to porters. Doctors to estate managers.
Schools need everything from text books to projectors. Keyboards and computers to chairs and tables. Bunsen burners to test tubes. Football pitches to changing rooms.
Teachers to lunchtime supervisors.
Supermarkets need everything from produce of endless types to checkout scanners. Shelves to delivery vans. Checkout staff to security staff.
I could detail an endless list of organisations, charities and bodies that need to meet maintenance and existence costs.
All this without even mentioning the bare essentials that pretty much all buildings need such as gas, electricity and water. Not the sole need of families.
Pretty much every single thing is getting more expensive in real terms.
The burden on so many parts of society is too much because of a private government realisation that everything is in a dismal state of disrepair.
A point has now been reached where just to keep things running at the same wholly deplorable level as things run at the moment is prohibitively expensive.
So to actually improve things is nigh on impossible.
It is a horrifyingly depressing thought but more than that it is reality.
An astronomical amount of money needs throwing at pretty much everything to a degree where absolutely gargantuan tax rises across the board would be needed to just make any serious impact to improve things.
And that would precipitate even more unbearable suffering for the working population that have long since reached their wits end.
It's desperately sad but more than that it's symbolic of years of systemic failure and reluctance to confront harsh realities. The pain is real and unfortunately will get worse with every passing minute of every passing day.
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