Summary
According to a report released on 15 September by the New Economics Foundation and Action for Children, the total will come to £4trn over the next 20 years if we carry on as we are. According to one estimate, British companies spend £25 m on consultants every working day, while public bodies have spent more than £/obn on them since 1997.
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Cuts, Consultants and Book-Buying
Everybody's mind is focused on public spending cuts and filling the growing "black hole" in the Treasury's accounts. But there is another, bigger black hole: the cost to the UK economy of failing to address the underlying causes of crime, drugs, child abuse, family breakdown, mental i...
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