"What exactly are jobcentres for?"

Thread from Kate Belgrave and shared to Reddit. User 'KarmaUK' is right on point in several comments, especially where private companies were being paid thousands to hold courses of zero value to people who already have GCSE English and Maths and can create their own CV, and touching on the kind of 'team building exercises' going on in work training providers like the Flexible Routeways I'd been on in 2008-09.