Employees of the government's much-maligned Test and Trace programme say that there was a 'phenomenal amount of money wasted' on scheme in the lead up to the end of Covid-19 restrictions.
Test and Trace officially ended on Thursday, February 24 - but sources say they were locked out of NHS software and completing “pointless” general knowledge quizzes after that - while still being paid £9.50 per hour. At least £11,400 a day is believed to have been wasted on employing around 150 agents who could not work in the days following the end of Test and Trace, reports the MEN.
“The only thing that was stopping me from leaving the house was having to log in and out (of the software) every 60 minutes to show I was still active,” said Anna*, a Salford resident who worked as a telephone operator employed by ANT Marketing, one of the companies contracted to carry out Test and Trace work.
