Early on in this thread there were criticisms of the Job Centres and the staff employed there. I have to say that the Job Centre in Norwich is absolutely first-rate. The staff are friendly and interested, the Security personnel are very pleasant and the building has been refurbished to a high standard. It now looks like a modern office with matching furniture and light wood tables. The only downside is a minority of the clientele,filthy dirty and reeking of cigarettes and cannabis, who slope in and slope out, having tied their dogs and babies up outside. They're rude to eachother and to the staff and if I were an employer I wouldn't touch them with a bargepole. What is saddening is the respectable person with desperation on their face, trying with all their might to scan the Jobs Sections and the websites, obviously devastated to find themselves without work. Not all Jobseekers are scroungers.