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      "text": "However, the UK is already experiencing a massive labour shortage across many sectors. To ensure that the fashion industry can supply the needed levels of talent, it should focus on collaborating with educational institutes as part of the Lifetime Skills Guarantee programme to create technical fashion education and Local Skills Improvement Plans, based on what the industry needs, while providing individuals with the training they need to get a well-paid and secure job. Only by proactively taking these steps to ensure the future of the fashion workforce will the industry be able to support the transition to a greener state.",
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      "text": "Although a shift towards a greener fashion industry may cause concerns that jobs could be lost due to automation, this is not necessarily the case. Instead, a transition towards greener reverse logistics and returns minimisation business models creates further job opportunities as the transition would open new roles and make the upskilling of the future workforce necessary. While determining the exact proportion of fashion jobs that can be attributed to their management or CSBMs is difficult, across all sectors in the UK, this transition is expected to create 200,000 to 472,000 jobs, of which an estimated 3-5% could go to the fashion industry based on the number of fashion workers as a proportion of the UK workforce.",
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