Ms Susanne Rogers:

There can be an element of thinking "I'm just tired, and I don't know if I can do this again". It gets harder each time. When you are in your 50s, having to go back and retrain and wonder if I have got one more spin in me is a really difficult position to be in. I think the Chair is right that the supports need to be there to allow people to train and not just take any job that comes along because their jobseeker's payment has run out. It is really important that instead, such people are able to job-match.