The safety of people on nights out could be affected as UK nightclubs struggle to find bouncers amid staff shortages. Bosses at the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) and UK Door Security Association have cautioned that lives could be at risk without government intervention.
The trade groups said that 75% of members surveyed – including nightclubs, bars and pubs – felt that security staff shortages were impacting on their ability to protect the public. Meanwhile, around 60% of businesses felt this was impacting on public confidence to go on nights out.
Michael Kill, chief executive officer of the NTIA, said: “We are simply running out of time. The sector has been raising the alarm about security resource concerns for the last few years and we are only now slowly starting to engage with the Government on this crisis.
