Track & Trace Rewarding Failure 2

[Gromit]

// Outsourcing firms miss 46% of Covid contacts in England's worst-hit areas

In Bradford, 42% of exposed people were reached, with 3,691 of those potentially infected not traced.

The two private firms were paid an initial £192m for the first three months of the programme, with the value of the contract reaching £730m over 12 months. Their contracts had been due to expire on Sunday but have been extended by the government. //

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/21/outsourced-firms-miss-46-of-covid-test-contacts-in-englands-worst-hit-areas

Their contracts should have been cancelled and the £730 million spent locally on tracing by people who know the area.

[dannyk13]

Gromit, Do keep up with the news:-
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/300-million-additional-funding-for-local-authorities-to-support-new-test-and-trace-service

[mushroom25]

not sure that whoever replaces the current incumbents will do any better. the scheme relies too heavily on the population being sheeple and after 6 months of that, you can understand a growing resistance to compliance. if the government really wants it to work, it needs to be robustly regulated, and backed by legal force.

[Gromit]

Serco were fined £68.5 million after it fraudulently billed the tax payer for tagging prisoners who were unfortunately dead.
Despite that embarrassing mishap, they have continued to be award £billions worth of contracts by the Conservatives.
Serco were kindly a sponsor at the last Conservative Party conference.

[ToraToraTora]

you forgot your other anti british BS post:
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1718207.html

[ichkeria]

The system was never going to work properly. Not when you rely on people co-operating (and you have no choice there) and remembering accurately or even knowing their contacts.
It was just common sense.

[Zacs-Master]

Agree with Ich. Trusting the BRitish public to basically ‘shop’ themselves was a non starter

[ichkeria]

Basically also there are far too many cases to rely on a manual system.