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'Everyone is calling in favours': The ‘Wacky Races’ scrabble to find masks and gloves for social care staff
09.04.2020 - 15:21 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
For anyone senior in a local authority right now, one scenario has quickly turned from the unimaginable to the familiar.
The scrabble for masks, goggles, gloves and aprons has some of the hallmarks of a farce when those involved describe the reality of the situation, in conversations sometimes underpinned by a mix of anxiety and thinly-veiled hysteria.
Two weekends ago, for example, a national delivery of protective equipment for the social care sector finally appeared in Greater Manchester.
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