Transcript

PHIL

So Bernadette got to school age, and there was nothing. And I remember my father fighting long and hard to get something for her and constantly getting rebuffed to the extent that when it came round to rates time, he went up to the town hall, and he put the money on the desk and said that's my rates, and I've deducted the education bit because you won't educate my daughter.

Eventually, Bernadette got into a training centre. And that was what was accepted then. Bernadette loved that. But it wasn't really preparing her for later life. It was keeping her occupied.