While the chief executive of the family support charity has come a long way since the days when she ran the centre "down the hill" for families in Reading, daily stories of unemployment, mental illness and the strain of family life are not far removed from the ones she was hearing in the 1980s.
Before those days, Bews stopped working as a computer systems analyst to have children and, with no intention of returning to work, she "accidently" ended up in the adult education sector, teaching an array of subjects.
"It was a hobby and then I ended up teaching sessions on everything from craft and design to drug abuse to computing," she says. "As that developed, I found myself working with adults who had come into problems from ill-health, disability and unemployment."
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