New careers centre to open doors in Time Square (From Warrington Guardian)

This would be a great idea if there were any jobs, there's already 1 centre though dealing with young people finding jobs called Connexions on Sankey Street that also deals exclusively with young job hunters. Although it's great in helping young people find employment why does it only cater to such a small range of ages for job seekers and what about everyone else that's looking for a job cause it's a fact that good job's don't advertise in job centres even down to jobs within the DWP which tells you something about the type of person that the DWP aim's to employ and that's not people on benefits. When this centre opens catering just for 16-19 year olds which is quite a small section because more youngsters than ever go to college and then on to University despite the tutorial fees so realistically this range of ages considering that they can only apply for what's called a bridging allowance when they're 17 and not in full time education or full time employment and can only apply for JSA when they're 18 is quite a small group probably under 1000 isn't the best way that the DWP and Warrington Council can spend money allocated to help the young unemployed into some kind of training or work and the only way that it can be economically viable is to open the new centre to all ages considering as i mentioned earlier the existing connexions centre on Sankey Street has been open for a long time and if yet another centre taking the total to 2 within 3 minutes walk of each other that deal exclusively with 16-19 year old job hunters the connexions centre obviously isn't working and with Warrington Council being controlled by Labour you would've thought they'd learnt their lesson from Gordon Brown that throwing good money after bad doesn't work and just increases the problem. Plus when Gordon Brown tried to raise cash to get him out of the hole he'd dug for himself he sold a large portion of the UK's gold reserves at the lowest price they'd been for decades and within days the price shot up and hasn't stopped climbing since! In an egg shell if it hadn't have been tried and proven to have little or no impact on unemployment levels of youngsters in no education, no apprentice position or full/part time job attempting to claim bridging allowance which i believe is discretionary if it's not changed in the past decade so wouldn't suprise me if nobody accept the very low income households like living with parents both on benefits or high levels of working tax credits because their income is that low are considered to be included on the 13 week bridging allowance program or if they're past 18 and in payment of JSA another centre to cater for exactly the same group of people will fail like the first centre and the only way it'll be worth us tax payers money is if it included everyone that wanted to work instead of the enforced programs by the DWP that people who've been unemployed for less than 6 months and are willing to do anything to get on a program like that are routinely excluded from and it's instead reserved for people who've never worked a day in their lives (legally through the books paying income tax and NI) Or been on the dole for decades claiming they've applied for 20 jobs per week even though that's an unrealistic number for even Uni grads cause there's not that many jobs to apply for that many each week without applying you the same position multiple times. The DWP need to wake up as a whole and concentrate on people who want to work and as for the ones happy on benefits they can do the work placements nobody wants like stacking shelves for 30 hours a week to earn their housing and council tax benefits and their £70 per week JSA or Income Support and when they're ready to get a job that pays at least the minimum wage instead of working for £2.10 per hour they can speak the their job advisor. Why should Job centre staff have to waste their time on people that don't want to work when i'd like to think there is an equal number of people who do want to work and will gratiously take any help they can get.