Work done by a further 80 students in a troubled Bradford Council training scheme has been found to be inadequate.

Already 41 former students are being told by the Council that the National Vocational Qualification they have been awarded is invalid.

Now a fresh bombshell has been dropped as checks show the work being done by 80 existing trainees is not up to standard and will have to be rectified.

It is understood a number of the students are on the verge of taking their exams.

Today a Council spokesman said: "About 80 current trainees have been contacted about meetings with the management to explain there is a need for some re-work."

Some students have complained bitterly to the Telegraph & Argus that the courses have been an understaffed shambles with work being lost by staff or going unmarked for as long as a year.

They say they have made strong complaints in the past which have gone ignored.

The existing trainees also affected have received letters of apology from the Council's contract services manager, Mick Binns, and promised individual meetings to discuss their work.

It is understood some of the 41 former trainees got jobs on the basis of their qualifications.

The latest shock comes as the examining body, the London College of Commerce and Industry, holds a full inquiry into the courses held at Metrochange House in the city centre.

The Council and the Curriculum and Qualifications Authority are also investigating.

The LCCI has suspended the course and has the power to withdraw from the Council scheme.

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