A WEBSITE to help unemployed people brush up on basic literacy skills remains littered with spelling mistakes two months after the errors were pointed out.

Misspelt words on The Learning Zone website include “opportunities”, “working” and “effective”.

The site is run by employment group Avanta which earlier this year won a multi-million pound contract to deliver the Government’s new Work Programme in the region.

The errors were originally highlighted by a user of the service in July.

However, another user, Stephen Dixon, from Redcar, said yesterday that the mistakes had still not been amended.

He said: “The site is bulging with so many spelling errors, it is insult to those it is supposed to be serving.

“If these are the examples of how Avanta’s learning programme is progressing, heaven help those who are trying to better themselves from it.”

As well as grammatical errors, the previous complainant criticised the Avanta work programme for its “chaotic induction” and “contradictions in the information given to jobseekers”.

Mr Dixon has been enrolled on the programme for three months.

During that time, he said he had been given four different job coaches.

The 38-year-old, who has been unemployed for about a year, said: “It’s very difficult – as soon as the coach changes you have to start from scratch again, telling them your name and what qualifications you have.

“I just think they want to get as much money as they can but don’t offer a fantastic service.”

In response, Kaye Rideout, a regional director with Avanta, said she was disappointed that the mistakes on the website had not been rectified.

“I will take it on board and see what has happened,” she said, adding: “Complaints don’t bother me. I just see them as an opportunity to make things right. I want to make the project perfect for the people in the region.”

She said Mr Dixon would see several different staff members with different roles during his “journey” with Avanta. “We have had no other complaints and we have had some good results already,” she said.