When I became an outreach worker ten years ago there was still some vestige of a welfare state. The indignity and devastation I see now is astonishing
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I don’t work for the public sector and I’m not paid by the state, but I am an integral part of it. I work for a crisis service in Leeds, part of a “shadow state” of charities, faith organisations and food banks. Some people call us the third sector. Others the voluntary and community sector. We pick up the pieces when the public sector lacks the resources to help the poorest.
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