I have been registered with A4e for four years now, and apart from two interviews early on, I have heard ;ittle from their local branch (in West Yorkshire).
After their initial suggestion that they could find me work packing things into plastic bags (I am a former Health Service and Utility Company Business Manager) fell on rather stony ground, I wanted to undertake a correspondence course to get a qualification to perhaps enable me to work from home (I am virtually wheelchair bound and suffering with a degenerative condition affecting my legs). They were happy to put me on one of their courses but refused to fund my correspondence course. I tried to complain to the DRO at the local JobCentre but he didn't want to know about them and refused to accept a complaint from me.
Eventually after the storm broke about their C4 programmes, I wrote to their MD who ordered their local office to contact me, but true to form after an initial mail from them suggesting a meeting (I was in hospital at the time), nothing has been heard from them.
In the last week I have received a really good offer from the Correspondence Course company offering me a 75% discount if I book by next Friday. If I was on New Deal, I'd get it straight away.
I have emailed their regional manager and staff again and got an out of office message saying that he isn't back until October 15th 2009!
