THE Work programme is now only three months old but, in many people’s eyes, died a slow death after session one.

Session 1: Induction - pomp and frilly presentation promising exclusive jobs and quality training for all.

Session 2: Asked to bring in evidence of what I had been doing to find work.

Session 3: Again asked what I had been doing in my search for work.

Session 4: Asked a third time what efforts I had taken to find work.

Session 5 (Due at the end of September): My turn to ask the £5bn Work Programme: “What have you been doing to help me find work?”

Stephanie Finnegan, Normanby.