I am the fruit of their struggle. This was a classic Labour story, and this is where I learnt my Labour values. If a Government could support low-income parents who worked hard so that their children could have a better and more secure life, it was all right by me. Opportunity in education, always a fundamental tenet of the Labour Party from the days of Michael Joseph Savage and Peter Fraser, became critical for making the most of my potential and giving me and my family choices. My father went back to school at the age of 48 to become a social worker, and he worked as one until he retired in 2017. The Training Incentive Allowance paid for his petrol so he could get to his lectures. It gives me great pride that this Government is reinstating the Training Incentive Allowance, a policy that I know not only impacts directly on the children of solo parents but, in my father's case, the thousands of vulnerable children that he cared for as a social worker.