'There is a human cost here': Industry claims almost 20,000 retrofit professionals have lost their jobs since ECO cuts

Stuart Stone
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New analysis warns a further 41,000 people could be made redundant within the next six months without urgent action to deliver long-awaited Warm Homes Plan

For the first time in decades the UK does not have a national domestic energy efficiency programme in place, and as a result almost 20,000 people are estimated to have lost their jobs in the six months...

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