Comments on: Can you afford training? No? Tough. http://www.freedomcentral.org.uk/2009/08/can-you-afford-training-no-tough.html Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:48:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sian http://www.freedomcentral.org.uk/2009/08/can-you-afford-training-no-tough.html/comment-page-1#comment-1503 Sian Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:55:02 +0000 http://www.freedomcentral.org.uk/2009/08/can-you-afford-training-no-tough.html#comment-1503 I couldn't agree more Matt. I work for a company that regularly retrains people through the Government's ReAct scheme and I'm staggered that the benefits system is so "short sighted". Surely the whole purpose of ReAct was to get those who'd been made redundant back into work quickly and efficiently by providing them with additional skills and training. If in order to make use of this scheme, recipients have to surrender their state benefits it makes a complete mockery of the entire system! I couldn’t agree more Matt. I work for a company that regularly retrains people through the Government’s ReAct scheme and I’m staggered that the benefits system is so “short sighted”. Surely the whole purpose of ReAct was to get those who’d been made redundant back into work quickly and efficiently by providing them with additional skills and training. If in order to make use of this scheme, recipients have to surrender their state benefits it makes a complete mockery of the entire system!

]]> By: Clare http://www.freedomcentral.org.uk/2009/08/can-you-afford-training-no-tough.html/comment-page-1#comment-1499 Clare Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.freedomcentral.org.uk/2009/08/can-you-afford-training-no-tough.html#comment-1499 Picture this - you find yourself unexpectedly unemployed. You have to fight just to get job seekers because your under the age of 25, have a degree and no children. Clearly this means you have no right to be unemployed and desperately looking for work. You have to spend three months looking for work, bearly even paying for your transport to interviews on the pitiful £47 a week, before you can even apply to go on a training course. You're put on a waiting list for a course that has been chosen for you by job centre staff (you don't get a choice). You wait another 3 months and finally your efforts pay off and you get a job. You phone the job centre to let them know you are starting work. Within 2 hours you get a call from the job centre to say there is now a place on the course but they can't pay for it because they've heard you have a job!!! That was over 2 years ago. I dread to think what it's like now with higher unemployment. Picture this – you find yourself unexpectedly unemployed. You have to fight just to get job seekers because your under the age of 25, have a degree and no children. Clearly this means you have no right to be unemployed and desperately looking for work. You have to spend three months looking for work, bearly even paying for your transport to interviews on the pitiful £47 a week, before you can even apply to go on a training course. You’re put on a waiting list for a course that has been chosen for you by job centre staff (you don’t get a choice). You wait another 3 months and finally your efforts pay off and you get a job. You phone the job centre to let them know you are starting work. Within 2 hours you get a call from the job centre to say there is now a place on the course but they can’t pay for it because they’ve heard you have a job!!!

That was over 2 years ago. I dread to think what it’s like now with higher unemployment.

]]>