[Chrysalis]

Well example I can give is someone was doing a plumbing course, his only income was JSA and couldnt afford to pay the travel costs as was some distance to the training location.

Job centre refused to at least assist in the costs.

To sirius sorry life isnt that simple, its ok saying I went to life school or college, but how was it paid for? you had savings? family member help out? or perhaps your current job had a good enough wage so you had enough to pay for it and ongoing living costs. Or is there free training/education in your area perhaps?

All I know is that there was a load of cuts in my area to schemes that were designed to get people skills, the cuts were done for 2 reasons.

1 - The money funding these schemes ran out.
2 - The skills people learned turned out to be useless as there was no jobs for those skills in the area.

By mass employment I mean we cant have 5 million solicitors, a million accountants, 10 million teachers and so on. There is only so many skilled jobs and the rest gets filled by shelf stackers, mcdonalds, cleaners etc.