Bernadette Callaghan is a Traveller education service officer and a member of the LEA. She was portrayed by Anna Tolputt.
Bernadette arrives on the Waterloo Road Comprehensive School grounds with a string full of Traveller kids. She informs a perplexed Deputy Head Eddie Lawson (who is acting head while Rachel Mason is away at a conference) that the kids are to enrol at Waterloo Road. Eddie agrees to take the kids on but their stay proves to be chaotic.