Sir,

I would like to offer my support to Anthea Dewhurst and her campaign to get a job centre in Monmouth.

I have had some personal experience of the poor service on offer when I took my granddaughter, aged nineteen, by car to the Abergavenny Job Centre for a pre-arranged appointment to see if she could find a job.

When we arrived and she presented herself to the Centre, she was told they were too busy and would have to come back again.

If the Centre had been in Monmouth, she could have walked there and back, but a round trip of 24 miles wasted my time and hers and reduced her to tears as she felt so rejected.

Looking for a job is difficult enough without being told that they were too busy to keep an appointment made a few days ago.

Our young people need encouragement to look for work, they need to be able to look at a board everyday to see the jobs available in their areas.

How can you expect an 18 year old to travel 12 miles daily to look for work. I would rather my tax be invested in the youth of today, rather go to our MP's who seem to want to misuse and waste it

Concerned grandparent