Bournemouth and Poole college are offering iPods and £100 to unemployed teenagers when they complete a 14 week course in "Life and and job skills". The scheme will cost taxpayers, hopefully only those in Dorset, £870,000!! If these teenagers cannot be motivated to improve their lot in life without such incentives in the first place, why should these incentives work? How long before there is a trhiving second hand market in Bournemouth and Poole for iPods? Cutting their benefits would encourage them to find jobs in the first place and save taxpayers' money. I always dislike such schemes anyway because they are a "kick in the teeth" to other teenagers who have tried to improve their futures.
Why does a course take 14 weeks to show teenagers how to apply for jobs, give them interview tips and show them how to write CVs? I could show them in a couple of hours!!
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