Not being pedantic Maggy but i take it you have changed your mind about this scheme as before you were agreeing with the guardian article that called it exploitative and low paid low skilled employment , and seemed quite against it.
Is it just the barnardos statement that made you change your mind because the jobs on offer have not.?
It is easy to imagine how wizard the idea must have looked from the work and pensions minister's corner office. Work experience does make people more employable – and it should be open to benefit claimants, not just those with better-off parents who can subsidise them. But it is also easy to see how offensive it is to perform boring, menial, or simply pointless tasks for major retailers without being paid. And when it means working for employers who make billions of pounds each year (or, as at A4e, where bosses take millions in public money as bonuses), it is simply exploitative.
In post 71.