Review warns: Tackle
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THE UK “cannot duck” challenges of tackling inequalities of health, ethnicity, education and occupation post-coronavirus, a review is warning.
The pandemic has revealed, and in some cases exacerbated, pervasive inequalities that may threaten the fabric of society, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) Deaton Review of Inequalities.
Without urgent action, these gaps will widen further, warned review chairman and Nobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton in a new year briefing.
The review, which launched 18 months ago, has published an analysis of how divisions grew over 2020 as the pandemic swept through society.
It says there is a ‘once-in-ageneration opportunity to tackle the disadvantages faced by many that this pandemic has so devastatingly exposed’.
“We now face a set of challenges which we cannot duck”, it adds.
Sir Angus said: “As the vaccines should, at some point this year, take us into a world largely free of the pandemic, it is imperative to think