• Clare (Sally Phillips‐ Miranda, Smack the Pony) is a social worker enduring the endless trials of bombed out estates and Byzantine bureaucracy, in a job that would be a lot easier but for the tiresome necessity of having to deal with members of the public. Like plenty before her, Clare Barker has entered a caring profession so that she can sort out other peoples problems rather than deal with her own. A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in other people's lives on both a professional and personal basis.

• In this series will the Sparrowhawk Family Centre survive the Big Society? And, at home, will Clare and Brian's relationship survive his infidelity? Clare encounters the man whose music influenced and shaped her as a teenager. Clare’s driving lessons lead to an unexpected encounter and there is an unveiling at the family centre.