Hi, i have sat and read through all this and have a little bit of advice.... you should try looking into the tax credits again as my partner works and i DONT and he still gets tax credits, he earns more than your partner so you would deffo be able to get it! Im 100% sure! And with regards to the midwifery... Since i was a child i wanted to be a nurse, and i never thought it would happen, but when i had just turned 23 i had my 1 year old and decided to go do it! (but i wanted to be a midwife) when i decided this, so i rang norton college up to do the science access course, got a place, did this on £30 a week plus travel costs, and then passed it, but i will warn you, we were told that getting into midwifery was near impossible as there was so much demand to do this course! So i applied for nursing instead, Lucky for me that i did this as i passed the course i was on, applied for nursing and got accepted! I start on Jan 24th as a student nurse and cant wait as i have worked for it! But i must warn you, in college last year there were 6 classes of us in college with 35+ in each, around 40 applied for midwifery and only 1 got accepted! So what im saying is, it may take a few years to get offered a spot so be warned! :/ But if you ring norton college they should help, interviews are in after xmas xx