Life in Bethany

Marigold Bentley describes a personal experience that resonates today

by Marigold Bentley 15th April 2011

If you failed the 11+ in the area of Dorset in which I was born, school life ended for you at sixteen. Farming, apprenticeships, the army or early marriage were the options presented. I was interested in child-care, so I went to technical college to do a mainly placement-based course in residential care through which I gained experience in a number of institutional settings.