Quote Originally Posted by lcassey View Post
Her English is not great but passable and she obviously wants to do something with her life! We have tried to get her ito local colleges to do the basics GCSE's but we are being told that because she is 19 in August she is too old to enrol on free courses for education unless she is claiming Jobseekers Allowance. Obviously once she claims that (and we really dont want to claim it as none of our family has ever claimed benfits and dont believe in 'scrounging off the state') then surely she would be obliged to look for work when really she needs a basic education first!
'scrounging off the state' many people who scrounge off the state were tax payers, if you can't claim it whats the point of paying taxes?, she will be a tax payer soon, so i dont see a problem with her claiming JA so she can get more qualifications..

many free intro courses (6wk ones) at colleges, or even try some http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/onlinecourses/