I HAVE been told in the 1980s and 1990s job clubs were actually very good.

In the days before the internet you applied for jobs properly. It was individual and personal.

All the tools one needed were supplied by job centres.

Electric typewriter, embossed paper, envelopes, and all your applications delivered free of charge.

Today job clubs are very different, technology has taken over and it’s not all good.

Now the jobseeker is being asked to bring all the tools with them, tools jobseekers simply cannot afford.

This is a fact of life, there are not enough computers to go around for job clubs, all the people signing on, and the part-time workers who have to search for more work.

The cheek of it, jobseekers are now being asked to bring in their own portable computers.

For those who don’t have one they must provide print outs of their job search activity because the job centre cannot afford to fund printouts.

Yet they expect an unemployed young person on £57.90 a week to find the extra money.

Stephanie Finnegan, Normanby