Every second Thursday, John Pinnington follows the same, rather bleak routine.
After breakfast, he heads to his local JobCentre, where he collects his dole money for the week ahead.
It is a paltry sum, a mere fraction of what he used to earn when he was the respected deputy headmaster of an Oxfordshire college for young adults with learning difficulties.He and his wife Rosie no longer enjoy the comforts of the lifestyle they once led.
Living under a shadow: John Pinnington with his wife Rosie
They have to rely on the goodwill of friends with holiday homes in the UK when they need a break, and can barely afford to keep their neat three-bedroom terrace house in the tranquil Oxfordshire village of Benson.
Without his £35,0000-a-year income, they have been forced to resort to selling off various family possessions in order to pay their mortgage.
For John's once-excellent career prospects have been destroyed because of a series of unfounded and spurious indecent assault claims made by three young adults in his care.
Despite police investigations into each of the claims, none of the allegations has resulted in criminal charges or conviction but, despite this, they remain on his teaching record - preventing him from securing another job.
Earlier this month, John, 59, lost a High Court battle to clear his name, despite the judge admitting the 'serious weaknesses' in the allegations.
In a judgment which will affect thousands of carers in charge of children and young adults in Britain, the judge ruled that future employers should always be made aware of such allegations, however 'weak and unreliable' they were.
The case is a test of tough new vetting laws introduced after the infamous murders of two Soham schoolgirls in 2002.
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