[jedimaster]

to be honest -and i know i can only speak from my experience as a person who would prefer to be working a redistribution of funding is what is needed- rather than us dole dossers (lol) living on government handouts
redistribute the cash into providing proper training courses with a recognised qualification at the end of it.
maybe proper subsidies for companies willing to train someone to do more than wield a bog brush. Educate companies as to the value of teaching someone to do a job as opposed to waiting 12 months for someone already qualified. Instead all we have is empty promises churned out from a hundred government funded thinktanks who create these new initiatives which when investigated, provide not opportunites to train as promised or advertised, but an endless circle of one department passing you on to another on to another and so on untill you either end up back where you started, still none the wiser because noone will accept responsibility or haven't got a clue what you are talking about, or if you are really lucky your head disappears up your own rear passage.

'give a man a fish and he'll feed himself for a day - give a man the means to fish for himself and he'll feed him and his family for a lifetime'

i know it's a cliche but it's true.