I read with amazement that the CSCS scheme is 拢5m in the red (3 December, page 9).

Although I can appreciate that the cost of administering such an overly complex and confusingly bureaucratic process must run into millions, surely the fact that they charge 拢35 to sit the health and safety test and a further 拢600 (according to the CSCS helpdesk) to have an on-site assessor come and watch the worker must go somewhere towards balancing the books?

I know sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but with wages like this I鈥檓 thinking of becoming an assessor. (On second thoughts, how much must it charge to assess the assessors?)

John Ford, via email

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