Thankyou for your suggestions. I live in Scotland, i think the connexions service is only in England just now? And i have heard some things about it that make me feel distinctly uncomfortable. Call me paranoid, but there seems to be an Orwellian overtone to the whole operation, there's a website that i'll post a link to explaining it all better.

I left school at 16 with no qualifications, so i can't get into college very easily - i'm trying, though :). I'm looking into access courses at the moment.

Thankyou again for your concern and suggestions!