IN 2013 the Government’s Work Programme will be into its second year. By next June tens of thousands, like myself, will leave no further on than when we started in 2011.

The £5bn programme was supposed to revolutionise welfare to work. Instead it was a rushed-in, patched-up scheme without any long term thought or consequence.

A one-size fits all scheme does not work. Neither does one which pays private work programme directors multimillion pound bonuses for doing little more than setting up premises and banking the £400- per-head attachment fee.

There is no personalised support. Middlesbrough’s work programme has thousands of clients on its books and they are crammed in like a tin of sardines.

If you are looking for quality training courses – forget it.

S Finnegan, Normanby.