The Fairy Jobmother

Series 2 Episode 1
First Broadcast: Tue 7 June 2011

Hayley visits Bootle, on Merseyside. With more than a quarter of its 64,000 work-age residents claiming out-of-work benefits, Bootle has one of the hightest rates of unemployment in the country.

Four long-term unemployed people from the local area say they want Hayley's help to get them off benefits and back into work: Dave Lonorgan, 53, has been unemployed for almost two years, after being laid off from his job as a security guard.

Twenty-one-year-old Louise Lonorgan is Dave's daughter. She's never worked and has been claiming benefits since leaving school at 16.

Sue McArd, 31, is a lone parent and qualified beauty therapist who has been on benefits since the birth of her daughter, six years ago, and 27-year-old expectant father Alex Foster has struggled to find work since dropping out of police training four years ago.

To help them, Hayley sets up a job club from a community centre in Bootle, with the aim of getting each individual back into work, in just two weeks.

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