In message , at 12:15:30 on Fri, 4 Oct 2019,
tim... remarked:

I've never had to do this, but does the Unemployment office in Barking
really send people off to jobs in Heathrow? Don't they just have a
list of "local" jobs

They don't list jobs much themselves (that was the bricks and mortar
model a generation ago), they police the process whereby people search a
bunch of third party jobsites to look for jobs and then report back once
a fortnight[1]. And get cross if people aren't diligent enough.

Apparently they expect people to commute up to three hours a day (aka
"90 minute rule", if there's an opportunity of employment which will get
them off the register.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/...lation/14/made

[1] Still colloquially called "signing on", but it's more of an
opportunity for them to find a reason the sign the jobseeker off!
--
Roland Perry