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Elaine Wilson left school at 16 with 2 GCSEs, one in English one in Maths. She got pregnant two months later and spent the next nine years raising a family. She spent all her time looking after her kids, managing to raise them on a meagre budget of benefits. Maintaining relationships with the housing association, social workers who always seemed to be on her back, doctors, schools, all the stuff of life. She was too busy with the daily grind to work. She had no skills. Or so they told her.

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