Alison and Paul present Joe's special needs to his headmistress but little help seems forthcoming and Alison takes a job at the school as a voluntary reading tutor. She invites two of Joe's friends for a sleep-over but it is disrupted when Joe is sick. However his time off school leads to a better rapport, if temporary, with his mother. Meanwhile Nicola and Eddie find out about Maurice's arrangement with Louise and Paul is not amused to learn that Eddie has intervened in Rebecca's relationship with Luke.
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