Carrie Price is a student at City and Islington, currently studying Creative Media Production and Technology. She enjoys writing and photography. In the future she hopes to go on to do Global Media Communication and Journalism at university. Her passion is writing and she hopes to continue to write pieces like this to expand on her knowledge and bring focus to important topics. Here is her article on austerity and the pandemic.

References:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_austerity_programme
- https://ifs.org.uk/publications/14369
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/20/youth-services-suffer-70-funding-cut-in-less-than-a-decade
- https://www-cdn.oxfam.org/s3fs-public/file_attachments/cs-true-cost-austerity-inequality-uk-120913-en_0.pdf
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/907122/Measuring_tax_gaps_2020_edition.pdf
- https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2021/03/30-pubs-and-restaurants-closing-every-day-in-uk-with-worse-to-come/
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/pubclosures