Growing Up Poor In Britain: Boys & Girls (Poverty Documentary) | Absolute Documentaries

I think that's an interesting thing this one piece will make 52 layers watch on mobile devices or the big screen all for free no subscription required download vele now [Music] modern Britain in 2012 in the midst of a recession we are all in it together but some are in it deeper than others it's a tricky time to become an of age on a council estate this film follows three Lads over a summer of trying to make their way in an austere world without money it's a struggle to keep a roof over your head find a job and aspire to a future one thing was up and after another thing from almost a job so lost the job lost the valve juice of [ __ ] everyone does bomb there but she just can't afford to support me anymore so I've got to do my own thing [Music] it's book at times get hard things get on top of me I don't act up and stop acting like a kid I'm gonna bring up again so now I'm here trying to be a man and always been a determined focused person like sort you know it's it's got me into trouble in the past and I'd have to change I have to do something about this my aim is to not just to educate myself is to actually one day be working a successful industry [Applause] 18 year old Craig has grown up on an estate on the outskirts of town most people on here comes into drugs when the young when they have a lot most people fight when they um it's just it's just that kids grow up around it's just a thing Council housing and violent I just don't want to be like the rest of them I don't have a job I'm not have a good life Craig still lives at home supported by his mum this is my house because it was a bit of a mess not that big but this is where me and my mates hang out if it's goals on Street well I also have an over door and it fell off but I don't like not having a door to my room I'll be doing a bit of boxing training on the wall though I was punched it one two I was like Madness in an industrial town like Rotherham jobs are scarce for Craig's mom it's a particularly hard time she recently lost her job and is pregnant she owns the house she bought it 12 years on I'm still there without a job it's increasingly hard to make the mortgage payments and Craig's mum is now being forced to sell his childhood home she had a job since she was 16 but now for the first time in like 18 years she's been put out of work she's definitely I'll say someone in Social good move I'm struggling for money at the moment because she's been out of work I can't live here anymore for Craig it's not just leaving this house it will mean leaving home and fending for himself for the first time thank you in Birmingham nineteen-year-old Wes is also struggling with his home life although he does sometimes State his mums life is difficult there me and my mom have good and bad days we can be all right for one minute and the next minute we can be completely different foreign I just want to get my own place in it because there's no space in my house anymore it's just overcrowded and there's no income coming in seriously [Music] um 19 yes in this cramped room Wes has decided his only option is to try and get a place in a Young Person's hostel I just want to do things for myself now but I've done College School and an anger job so getting a hostel is the first step for me really doing anything [Music] come on I've been suffering my cousins for a couple of days yeah man I'm just sick of being stuck in other people's houses and I have a place on my own it's one step of being a child and it going into the adulthood getting my own place although it may gain him Independence getting his own room will come at a cost financially and to his job prospects [Music] the 19 year old Frankie Hong is a cramped three-bedroom Council flat where five people are dependent on his mom's benefits foreign [Applause] when someone's in the shower obviously if I'm in a restaurant bang on the door tell them come up I've been with four women it's all right I I don't know I've always because obviously it's the norm to me so I don't really know what it's like to not live with just women yeah I was always in the streets now growing up anyway I was never really at home so I was always around males anyway so this is just where I slept when I was growing up I guess Frankie has just finished his first year at College where are you studying games design um people who create the software and they provide it to students for free so I don't have to actually pay for the software this project is Just a Dream Home that'll be on the beach with the swimming pool and a roof you know it's a dream home it's a dream like it's a fantasy it's not real this ain't my dream home because if I created a dream home that's just appealing to me it would probably be in the woods or somewhere secluded like that my dream has always just been independent having my own Hearts being happy somewhere and location-wise would probably still be in the hood like there's nothing actually wrong with the area it's just the environment you know mentally I can't be here I have to kind of bring myself away from that kind of get out that bubble Frankie's hope is to be the very first person from his family to get to University because obviously living around him my whole life seen people grow up but they haven't really moved on anyway I've just seen them grow up and be in the same place one day I kind of set to myself like I have to change you know it's like nobody ain't gonna change for me I do need that determination you know and that Focus because without that then you know how am I going to get where I want to be but with fees now hitting nine grand a year and no access to the bank of mum and dad the odds are stacked against him education is the way out you know rich people who don't need to really care about education because it's given to them on a plate whereas people like me or whoever else is in my state you're born into nothing so you have to make something of yourself [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] in Rotherham a town dominated by steelworks Craig had trained as a welder I'm not a trained mechanic I'm an engineering welder I know basic car mechanics but he knows robot bikes but these days there's not much call for welders being taught in like quite every machinery and that but there's just no jobs out there or what for young people known wants to take young kids on from school despite their skills Craig and his old school mate [ __ ] have never had jobs although chinkster has his paper around The Lads scratch a bit of money by fixing bikes around there there's loads of people who've got bike parts like little swap or trade for another bike bot engines or brakes or whatever clutch I only got this because I swapped the scooter for it there's three mechanics on this street and one welder on the street where I work so I'm about to empty trade so picking out me in life forever needed their welding don't know that I can do it myself although he has no future in the industry he trained for Craig has refused to sign on and claim benefits instead he enrolled in a local sports course which gets him 10 pounds a week and a free bus pass 10 pound won't support him when he has to stand on his own two feet [Music] Wes didn't manage to get a place in the hostel and he's back on his old circuit places all the time always traveling always going around around but there is one constant in his life a year ago Wes became a dad it's on now look oh don't I'm gonna found out I was 17. I was in my college class and I was just sitting just sitting there and she's pinged me on my BlackBerry and she said guess what if you're gonna be a dad it was a good feeling but a scary feeling thinking okay I've got to step up now I've gotta be a dad I gotta grow up not knowing who that my real dad is he left my mom when she fell pregnant so I thought I can't do that to anyone I need to be there for him you know what I'm saying when he's here with Robin he's good I'm not going to fault him on that but he does do the papa dad job but it's it's still a little boy inside so I don't know I didn't expect it to be as hard as it is go on it's their child as well like help make it so they should pay the way as well because it's not easy you know a tin of milk look maybe enough 12 pound now that don't get you nowhere so I'm 53 pound a week job Seekers allowance it's a struggle to contribute financially um yeah it was hard because of the stuff that you just can't do all the time the main arguments are about is not supporting us and whatever else you know I'm struggling money wise so I have to buy everything for Rowan um but it's not that easy I've been doing a bit of volunteer work but I don't know I don't want to be doing voluntary work who wants to work for free if he got a job it would be so much easier for Craig events at home are moving faster than he'd expected that's it unable to sell the house and going further under with the mortgage Craig's mom is moving out desperate to sell she's planning to have it redecorated reluctant to lead the place he grew up and with his relationship with his mum strained Craig is staying gone temporarily grab some money well I ain't got any with nothing left in the house Craig looks at retrieving sofas's mumbling a neighbor what so going through it was [ __ ] ruined I told the stupid [ __ ] [Applause] [ __ ] [ __ ] [Music] I said to him about two weeks ago keep them cities [Music] I remember when I was young when I first ever come here when I was four year old I remember this is our last time I seen this room empty everything I know was around here but now I'm on my own so it's not going to be as easy [Music] foreign almost all his mates are dads and out of work yeah man close mate Aaron has asked him to come round with no money and a hungry baby he's desperate has to be ten yeah but that's what I'm saying now but I'm saying if you put in five you can still use the emergency again but then that that's going to be gone by tomorrow you know what I mean you know what you need to do everything ask someone to lend you some money simple as simple I went to my dad before yesterday to borrow money in it I can't do that now oh you've been sick I can't go to no family member and there's not many people out there that will buy me things but that's just the wasteman just know if you come back here tomorrow though this is always got another electric food and he's gonna have some nappies some milk what milk does he take and for Hungry babies SME no no I'm hungry baby so what if I got him some SMA ones not good not good to [ __ ] with his stomach they both know what the options for making money on an estate can involve if I got a bit of change in my pocket I can go out there grab a little set in a gold flip it and make a little bit of money in it when you don't even want to be getting yourself sucked in all this stupidness but it's not like I need to borrow it like it and it could be you know with me you need stuff but can you use your phone with him yeah but hi this is Johnson so close please press one I hate this automation system I don't know where's this decided to try and lend Aaron the money himself but his job Seekers allowance payment hasn't come through and the job center aren't much help okay then thanks she said get a crisis long for now she said it ain't been processed then the last time offered me a crisis loan 14 pounds would take the piss but that's I'm not even gonna get mad about it because now I'll just have to see what else I can do so for now he's just going to Zarin foreign 59 pound a week I don't know how they expect adults people that have kids to live off 59 pounds a week the streets is a safety net the streets are always there for you there's always opportunity within streets to you know make money but it's easy it's like the easy route out whereas going to get a job in it that's kind of the hard route and you need that determination and ambition to get you there and if you're coming from the state like this and you go apply for a job they get knocked back down then so they kind of lose that determination after they try so then they come back to the streets and the streets provide so that's why you can't blame people for coming back to the streets well Frankie knows from experience what the price of the streets can be a few weeks he makes a two-hour journey across London and gets a stark reminder [Music] When I visit my friends I don't know what they're thinking that's why it's good to be the person outside of the table because I don't know what goes through dad before when I was here I was I was sitting on the other side of the visiting table I was the person being visited Frankie was sentenced to two years in prison for the street robbery of a mobile phone that ended in violence I hit one of the boys and he suffered a fractured jaw so that's why I come to prison so yeah you see I've done two years for you know seriously injuring however you look at it you know you know that was in prison for something you know I wasn't in prison for no reason no one's in prison for no reason no bad toilet thing amazing view I was thinking about it just not what I was in what did I do to kill time though you know it's just think all the time that's when it kind of come up with a plan you know kind of try to structure my life yeah I've woken up and realized what you know what what my life is like and you know what everyone else's life is like and I kind of have to think you know how can I better this and no I don't regret it because you know it allowed me to come to prison you know it gave me and it gave me that time to think you know what I want to do with my life you know always keep that negative safety and if that makes sense let's say for example you think when I get out there you know just don't work maybe I can go sell drugs or something you know so I kind of have to take that negative aspect of my life away so my safety net is my plan you know so I can't let it fails in Rotherham Craig has been on his own for a week with no money to feed himself his only option has been to swallow his pride and seek benefits something he's bitterly opposed to a piece of [ __ ] he's just come back from the job center this is against everything against what I wanted to do but I've got no choice I never wanted to do without a grunt job Seekers another one I didn't want to move out yet but it's all gone right quick so I've just got him I don't want to do it my dad does it and he's a bum I don't want to be like it I'm his easiest job these days if you can get him you're all right they'll look after him for the next 10 years [Music] Craig is tied with the idea of joining the Army since school [Music] into Boston machine gun so it's all over this bit yeah they filled all that in that would have been like a place but snipers ultimate to hide it's all a pit massive mining pit right because they were mine not cold enough to try to invading this whole time and then they have a lot of twin soldiers when you're a kid with machine gun noises not a sniper it's a marksman well Marksman either way anyway I will yeah Johnny guts a well-trodden path out of the estate one already taken by chink's older brother your brother loves it though it likes being Army but I don't want to go back to Afghanistan because it's seen bad things there as soon as he got his first pay attention you're loving it for Craig it's still a Schoolboy dream you may soon be forced to make a decision not really if you do what if you do what they did it's not very nice she's in the patrol it's like I'm gonna start walking around we're going in [Music] North London Frankie's college is about to break up for the summer and he's already planning on how to fund himself through the holidays obviously once finished my course getting a job will be viable I will have to get a job I've got work experience with BT conservation work um Horticultural work experience all of them are volunteered Frankie has built up a great CV through working for free but getting a paid job is trickier he has to disclose his criminal conviction a plan online for jobs ain't really working so I'm going to kind of get proactive and go down to Wood Green go to the stores directly to go to a local internet cafe just print off devs who's taking the history of the previous person I was using his computer and whoever was using it was looking for adult work she was added in her profile Mandy Mandy she's 22 and she's a bi-curious female escort she's from finchman [Music] I'm looking for a retail job I'm in the area of games because I kind of I know a lot about the product so anything to do with games really I want to work on foreign McDonald's is like almost Last Resort thank you very much that's a family-run business so the only people that would employ is family members or friends can I speak the manager please yes you want to give me a CV and I can give you an email address for our HR we forward it to them okay okay thank you very much ironically Cash Converters May hold the most promise of a job surviving on his own Craig has been dealing with more basic problems he's still waiting for his first benefits to come through I run out of food on the day I have nothing yesterday all day before a hot day before that I don't know before that nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing in there sometimes cheeks mum Cooks me a bit of food sometimes I go to my hands my mates have been looking after me I want the whole money so I've had to claim job Seekers so because I'm claiming job see because I might have to I might have to get kicked out of my college course so leave education how's your mom getting on we're selling the house yeah sorry a couple of week and then that's what I've got to go like about two weeks left that's two weeks to find a place to live and decide his future Birmingham has one of the highest levels of long-term youth unemployment in the country [Music] hits because of that Mobility starts to egg like a beat and loads of know what it's like as the summer wears on where's has fallen into a routine being a dad in the mornings and then drifting down to the corner with his mates in the afternoon to never sleep everybody speaks to pee trust me nothing's ever free everybody has a dream but a favor if you will see how it feels to be able to make a reality and I hope that's me and I'm never gonna sleep until another I'm saying the community means everyone's like no jobs they they see the same faces so you just know they ain't got jobs do what every [ __ ] does unless you mean get lean it's counseling State you don't get twisted chilling with the man them the whole life has its Good Times a lot of friends that have jobs but not necessarily my closest friends ain't got jobs when you're going to drop them anymore it's hard to focus being around them because they ain't focused my piece of elastic that's why I'm moving drastic I don't remember the resting over I swear to God but I'm a BlackBerry stupid and it stuck a circle a circle where you just stuck hey baby [Music] see this place is way quieter than it did yesterday though yeah but [Music] yeah I'm ready I'm ready I'm moving I don't care but I'm ready attention [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign Craig's mates have been rallying round [ __ ] has been buying in food with his paper round money and waking him up for his course but this is the very last time Craig's two weeks are up his mum has got together enough money for the redecorating and she needs the house clear that doesn't do right um I've got posture coming I want to arrange world I want to go see this room win I wanted to pack some stuff up Craig we're all waiting for you it has been 15 minutes foreign be ready for Friday so now I'm gonna [ __ ] [ __ ] I'm not doing it his mum has found him a room he might be able to rent so he's not homeless but he'll have to claim housing benefit to pay for it great first don't want to 12 20 in the bus station at the castle machines make sure you're there I'm not messing this man about it sounds perfect what's wrong for you because I'm broke it sounds just gonna go whatever yeah I know he does am I [ __ ] home knowing it stop I'm going to Joint I don't know right well I was waiting to deal with it well I will [ __ ] deal with it same as what I were doing last time yeah well I'm [ __ ] 18 year old and if I wanna shoot a [ __ ] Taliban I'll [ __ ] wouldn't do it grab some with some Vlogs all right let's wait 1240. I ain't got three quid he's washed all then I've got a quid [Music] I can't touch you to do what you say you're going to do oh okay so I'll never sleep again but it's gonna kill a long time and then an infantry [Music] hello how is it do you remember the strings of the eyes Frankie Stevie didn't get him any offers you may have another chance out of the blue a voluntary work contact has recommended him for an interview in the West End where is Charing Cross by Central London how long does it take you to get there 40 minutes cancel [Music] I don't go in central London because you know there's never really been reasons for me to go there you know that's it it's not exactly a poor City you know there's loads of businesses and that's all it's not that I mean we love nowhere as much as there is going on there's a lot of competition you know the odds are stacked against you really Frankie has never been to a nightclub before and doesn't know the area but you might have some of the right skills it's Street work handing out flyers foreign [Music] have you been to a club before and I was like no like like you know just kind of food wow wow wow how are you gonna work how are you gonna work in a kind of nightclub environment okay club before she never said that but maybe that's what I think she fought so it's really important for me to um get to that interview stage when it comes to getting a job because because I have a criminal record so so when you do apply online life let's say for example when you apply online as soon as you enter you have a criminal record your application like kind of automatically gets turned down I almost feel like I'm blacklisted like I feel like I can't get jobs because of what I've done when I'm when I was a kid like you know obviously I regret every day I regret but there's nothing I could do I can't turn back time foreign has finally accepted he has to move he's come to clear his stuff out yeah this is my old room s empty looks smaller you've got walls I remember them being green and I remember being blue before that it's gone look it can only get there I hope anyway don't pack just whack warm things up and gospel another since my mom lost a job lost their valves could be those parts at recession but every day there's nothing to me or my mom stopping into everybody in the country I am bothered about it but I just don't show show that I'm bothered so I'll just keep it all inside and I was thinking like when I'm late at bed I think I'll think of my problems so we'll see what it's all about foreign [Music] they gave a place to live to defeat you they give you all stuff you need you get a lot of money out of it [Music] Craig hasn't sorted anywhere to stay so he's using [ __ ] shed as a base to stash his gear and he's going to crash on mate's floors be perfect man must fall down like that from the fire we made love [Music] you know for where's one of the problems of being a teen dad is that he's 53 pound a week JSA makes no allowance for his son as the mum the extra benefits go to Laura today she's going to the market with her mate Sophie with my benefits my money's every Fortnight so they have a good week and have a [ __ ] ready and you're on benefits and you're you're a young parent is absolutely rubbish you can't do what you want you can't buy what you want and my other shopping in ASDA with my milk tokens which you get I'll get three pound ten on each milk token and then down here I get my fruit and veg I just got three mixed bowls of veg for two pounds and girls think yeah I'm gonna have a baby I'll get this money I don't have to work and whatever it's not like that it's way harder Wes often hangs out at his mate Anton's that's me done for the week next door Anton's neighbor usually cooks for more than just her four children and looks out for many of the local kids at the moment how things are going there's not a lot of jobs going so even if they could do something it's limited really so by the time he gets about 18 19 what is it gonna be like is it just gonna get worse in the future I mean I don't think the boys around us need to grow up when they need to understand that become the father isn't just being the sperm donor or being the guy that comes around every weekend and spends a few hours with its child it's the noise I'm saying if you're there for your son you see him a lot you ain't got to worry about financial stuff until you can't afford it that's how I see it as long as you're there it doesn't take a baby to grow up does it which we've learned that but I think with boys it takes longer to mature doesn't it I mean basically if you used to walk down their roads right about now you'd probably find them all sitting on the wall doing what smoking yeah playing football with the little kids yeah bantering with the little kids you know singing to each other right here [Music] they've been multicolored at night they've not had to go out and fend for themselves I don't think they understand how good it feels and to achieve something and that's what they need to feel that's that's the good thing about words he he does more than what the other allowed to do you know where's he's gone out on doing courses and it's a slow process but he's trying isn't it he's trying to go out there and do things in London Frankie is waiting for a call well who's later for job this is that no hello oh yeah I'm fine thank you how are you yeah it's fine don't worry about all right then thank you all right bye yeah I got a job I told you man be 16 people to the job coming Hernandez to celebrate uh-huh it's been weeks since Craig moved out although his JSA is now coming through he's still so for surfing at mates on the estate the only reminder of his old home life are the clips of him Jake and [ __ ] messing around in his old room no that's a little reminder shooting you all right yeah chili powder he said he couldn't breathe through his nose for like three days that was very good oh very good oh the [ __ ] nice gold but Craig's mates know all he's not well we're moving because he's not really got much to do and it's basically he's just building up and building up and getting more angrier and I can see it every day when he just sat there he's not not doing all he's just sat there getting angry and angrier and I can see it I can see it literally building up to the point where he's just gonna rather go down a path where he's not gonna like or he's going to do something with his life because he's because of him being angry The Summer's drawing to a close he's still talking about the army but hasn't done anything yet well that's most of the reason why he wants to win on because he's got like nowhere to well he has got places to go but but it probably does look it as a way out like I landed at first well I want to get a job in that first get a car and that lives some of my life never thought you could spend like three weeks in one and get killed so I'd rather have some life before going into combat [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] day to check out a degree course and games design thank you that's right hi I'm Peter comaneos I'm one of the professors here at the national Center for computer animation welcome degrees and they're doing a masters here all the courses we do are both academically challenging so the the difficult courses but at the same time they prepare you for work oh animators are crazy they do all sorts of weird things like they dance with hula hoops they do motorcycles they juggle a lot they even play with a Christmas tree what's the possibility of me earning money or part-time work while I'm here um it's probably going to be difficult because unlike other colleges we have a very full timetable if you want to work in a shop or a supermarket you can but you'll be exhausted the inspections for 44 hours a week yeah I mean that's more than a full-time job yeah I know that's what I said that's what I said the possibility like you know it's you know it'll be too much pressure on you to have a part-time job as well so you should will give you a bit of an insight into student finance um how much could you supplement your income through student finance and support with really keep those running jobs and who's going to pick up the cost is it mum and dad um or is it going to be you so there is no need to panic yes the cost that you may pay may be more than people on the current system you can have that tuition fee of in this case nine thousand pounds a year you'll pay that annually but there is a tuition fee loan from student finance England to cover that full amount and think a bit about it like an investment you wouldn't so that's your tuition fees okay there that you're paid for how it balances so where the loan goes up the grant goes down and and then below meant to disadvantage and the finance system the amount that you're paying is more and I'm not going to deny that that is the reality of the situation you will have more of a loan than I have so what we're going to do now is move on to your budgeting challenge okay it will be a three year course so that that would be 27 Grand that would be in there you need to write that down 20 seconds that's not even including living Finance or nothing like that that's just 27 Grand just to do my course so obviously there'll be other costs on top of that as well so it'll be a lot of money I'm gonna live in a flat year with like certain rich people and then I'll live with them that's that's how that's how I'm gonna do it it's my plan I live with rich people with it I'll be a cool friend though because most of these people that come to this University are kind of like nerds and Geeks and stuff so have me as their friend you know just all you have to do is feed me that'll be their friend you've got to have your compulsory uni hoodie that's part of me you have to wear them you don't have to wear them no you wear your own clothes but if you want to you can get all your merchandise everyone has some uni hoodie yeah no I wouldn't wear that you wouldn't no never never oh you'll be surprised when you roll out at five tonight don't feel to mingle I don't know your kind of people um no no at all why not they're weirdos isn't it country people if you listen to what they're talking about they're talking they're talking posh oh my Mercedes broke down you know and stuff like that she's 16 and she's going to say these stuff things like that the day has given Frankie plenty to think about I need some rocks no I rock stick the sweet it was a good eye-opener but all it highlight really is how expensive it's going to be like they don't say ah it's going to be cheap or tall that though it's like the only thing they tell you is it's going to be so expensive and it's like so the only thing that highlight is everything's going to cost it's like it's more and more it's just the more they got one the more the more it's like the more in debt you're gonna get but University ain't really an option it's available like I have to do it so [Music] so we're gonna be doing the kick-up competition we'll also do see if anyone can beat Wesley okay winners of the kick-up competition will do a head-to-head with Wesley the summer has finally got a purpose has landed his dream job it may only be for three weeks but it's paid work I signed off jobs and have so no more there what one you doing get paid and then hopefully you go out and find a permanent job obtaining to a teacher that's how I feel I feel like a teacher I don't know you know I ain't really a hard time to speak to them probably just in bed smoking bud stuff like that when I was sitting at my house I ain't had a job board out my face I just felt like smoking is difficult now that I'm actually doing something I don't want to smoke I'm gonna do a certain that I enjoy and I'm getting paid for it which is all right for kicking around the football teaching kids in it hopefully I'd say so actually I can't say hopefully there's no going back now [Music] take it take it it's awesome guys Frankie has also settled into his job and he's enjoying the bright lights of the West End you're welcome man I mean I've got a temporary Poncho they kind of like look past with that prison thing and stuff like that for every one flyer that customer brings back they get 25p commission attitude thank you sorry okay the moment you know I seem to be ahead of everyone else so you know that's a really good look for me because it shows that obviously I'm working hard salsa you know considering that you know they printed off what 25 000 Flyers you know 25 000 25 P's if everyone comes in the potential to earn on commission is a lot but obviously the likelihood is I'm not going to earn that yeah we're in central London I would have to get in about 10 customers to buy a kind of coke so it's about 2550 so you know it's not it's not the commission is not good [Music] [Applause] [Music] in Rotherham things are also moving Craig's on his way to an interview but I took all the CVS up but listen listen this bit wouldn't be where I was working it would have been that side because it says they're heavy forward this is where the Meltdown all the steel can make it they're electric right Labs were the tester metals yeah I've just come to see Army careers advice mate after months of putting it off he's finally decided to enlist a little today all right pleased to meet you I'm Sergeant Charlton all right you're both like to take a seat it's not cool around here weather's horrific in it do you know anyone then that's in the Army yeah um man of his mates in there already yeah he talks to them about yeah yeah does that like influence you to join up there well I've always wanted to do it but he did it before me but have you actually thought about what you'd like to do within the Army I want to avoid the rifles so you want a full-time job 365 days yeah no dramas without me we're not sharpest at tools now it's not easy to get in the army nowadays all right current climate to do things like that in Afghanistan operation if you're going to be very physically fit okay I've been thinking about Joe Army for a long time and then it's got guys put off by it for a while it's a proud day have a photo talk get you both to the allegiance and everything in your swear to the queen everybody knows the risks of going armor right then we're going to start with the mandatory form right that you fill out it's called an army interest form okay it's more or less it no I was just lost in that but I've learned to deal with it and it's just meant to grow up sorted my life up [Music] Frankie's now back at college for his final year he was offered the club job permanently but reluctantly he had to give it up when the late hours impacted on his studies he still intends to go to university feel the night a pie house is you know by cars you know I want to be able to you know just live a comfortable lifestyle I won't be able to not be the same as everyone else [Music] Craig's waiting to hear when he'll be called up to the Infantry still Soulful surfing and surviving on benefits others stay around doing what I'm doing anyway I'll just end up being there is about bad eventually and then I'll end up getting arrested US [Music] after his three-week job Wes has had to go back onto JSA he still sees his son and is looking for a permanent job I wouldn't mind getting into academies and coaching academies because I know I got new level two that I got I know I can do that so that's something to push for [Music] a little deeper than you don't feel it going over the years [Music] until it's all good [Music] foreign [Music] the Royal Jubilee the Olympics even the bad weather can't stop Britain feeling good about itself but these are uncertain times [Music] the age of austerity not everyone is celebrating [Music] three teenage girls it's a summer of struggling to get by [Music] [Music] caught between a disappearing childhood and an unknown future this is their story obviously when you're young you like you're trying to show off don't you and I think really I showed off a bit too much and because I should like showed off it would like it to keep that reputation up if you've got what I mean but now I regret it because look look who's there they used to sit here in school like up Boston we used to laugh at them uh look at you both Computing nerd and stuff like that but look look where they are now and then where I am 17 year old Brady was visiting her best friend Billy but in doing so was taking a risk she's currently on bail and banned from this street and is threatening to call the police [Music] discipline but then because I didn't like what she was saying I just argued we're into I just couldn't live here but that's what I wanted back then not to leave them in answer I don't have no rules no no timing or all that just do my own thing she's saying I'm on her street but I'm not so she's full of coppers again I'd be not able to keep the mouth shut but I can't have somebody slagging me off behind me back I swear then after I've done this court thing I'm going straight through I'll get them for assault at least I'm getting done for something proper I mean granddad but they're like oh you need to get a job you're starting over but then I still no I'll be outdoor me I'll be up though uh do you know how much do I get up though I'm much more of a 100 quid that's gonna last year Fortnight and he was still laughing I was there because under your grid back then seemed a lot and I used to laugh and say oh yeah 100 quid I'd be able to live off 100 quid nah she's laughing at me because she just can't live off 100 quid because no no chocolate I actually want to go Army so I can go back to Milan and say look I know I really like [ __ ] back then but I have come out with someone and not just a criminal record or something stupid like that when are you gonna make this change soon very soon suspicious Bell condition so you don't have to say anything from the Army defense we don't measure we question yourself apprecially thought anything you'd also maybe in evidence this is ridiculous I'm sitting in the back of this police car right [Music] if they want to see it let's give him a scene come on come on Friday was spent a night in the cells Amber oh you have to wake up no yeah oh small yeah you might make up Amber is 16 I'm pregnant she's never been at her best in the morning but the last few months have been especially tough how many Uber costs my bedroom's getting redecorated for ready for my baby comes so and I don't have no carpet at moments because we haven't been able to get a carpet so I can't move back until my cap is done so I've got a sleep on couch anyway right Max can tell you don't make a couple days so you don't have a morning person I'm sure you can make your own sad you know I'm still a teenager like I'm scared inside so being pregnant's a new beginning and I've gotta grow up bye Mama you're awake please my other sick all right can I have that toes in Austra thanks love you turn it right yeah because it wastes gas um if you leave it on then it just eats your gas like I don't know what so despite being 20 weeks pregnant ambra started an introductory hair and makeup course but she's also having to get used to being seen as a Teenage mum when I got hospital I just feel awkward sometimes you know you look dead young compared to all these women and sometimes you get a few stairs as well it still feels like you've done something wrong even though you want but you have I think it's weird and a lot of them are like with the partners as well and I'm just like walking chattling on my own I've got to take in a notepad today and I don't even have one foreign [Music] actress but active lessons and stuff it crossbody I just expected like I would go to school where to sit as a life skill somebody would just discover me and I would be this fake famous actress within a week but it's just how it works like you don't you don't know it never like life like how hard stuff is [Music] 17 year old Shelby spent 12 months on benefits but now she's working five days a week and getting used to her new routine like because I don't have any experience I've never had a job before and I've I messed up in school and all that so like most people only take me for a job so this is my one chance to just get there so for like a year later I was like sleeping all day like constantly just lying in my bed all the time just lazy because I didn't have any reason to get up in my bed like so it's just lying there and just I don't like beach wave thanks [Music] [Music] morning Shelby's job is actually a six-month work placement arranged by a local charity but if I found a week is not really that great but as in the starting shows and stuff but I'm happy to be doing that because at least I'm working out and I'm doing something despite working 30 hours a week Shelby's financially no better off the 55 pounds she gets from the placement is the same as she would have got on job Seekers allowance I hope it'll be worth the work and I'll get a new job at some point obviously I'm still going to make mistakes but I'm gone doing the right path in Rotherham after a night in the cells bride is due in court billions some of her friends have come to hear the verdict because she has previous there's a chance Brady could go down oh yeah he's got why I actually feel caught yeah better than Robin yeah making she'll get reminded me today what do y'all think basically if you're in court 10 . let's get him over I reckon she's just a little girl in a big wheel trying to be a big game did they pass that message on to yet tell them to keep your mouth shut the court has renewed bridie's bail we'll be back for sentencing in a few weeks but for now she's not going to prison yeah as soon as I got it so I just smells dates we need to be doing McDonald's right we're just gonna cash machine on the way over back in two seconds that saves me can't wait it better do yeah that's if it works it'll work Justin me if my card don't work do you want yeah yeah you've drawn them huh why all right see are you gonna get moved get some coffee mother I don't know if not come on don't do that can't even do a favor yeah feeling the fresh air I need it back up because I'm [ __ ] Stony Brook what was pulling me off the fiber from Billy's mum we're off to McDonald's they made me sleep in a salad with insurance yeah [Music] foreign a lot has happened in the last year after falling out with a mum and dropping out of college she went to live with her dad but when she became pregnant she had to decide what was best for her and her baby but I didn't have my carpets and they rarely have much food and so far you know it won't be stable so like just to come back oh Amber's return has put an added Financial strain on the Family her mum Mandy and her new partner Scott are having to support Amber out of their existing benefits why we took the flower up was it horrible baldy I don't have no bedroom not quite yeah with the house already full Amber and the baby are going to be living downstairs can you get rid of that black stuff on the wall fingers crossed obviously I feel a lot better now she's back she's had to get used to the idea that there's rules and regulations again and getting back into the routine that there's a bedtime and we at a certain time if we're not on top of it and everyone don't pull away before you know it the old place has crumbled but through a bad part in my life where I went through a lot but I met a lot of boys did a lot of bad things you know I've been a so-called slapper what you made every now and then she has a little blast out especially a Romans and teenage years mixed together um but yeah she still does try to get away with murder if she can just being quite aggressive swearing back chatting um not much regard for other people at some points she's such a lovely girl though really you know probably a part of this is a stress a urge I've had a lucky escape to be pregnant because it's made me change the way I was I'm gonna try my best to make sure he has the right we're alive you know I might come off a track I hope it's not like most of the boys I know I don't mean like my classmate bars but like they were like the nasty attitude the hurting women you know being a complete ass and if you got someone pregnant and they did what my baby's dad done to me I'd be so ashamed I was 19 when I had Amber um obviously I were a bit more grown up than uh um but I still were in a bit of a similar situation where I weren't prepared to have a baby I didn't have the things that I needed um it wasn't ideal situation either which is got the same kind of thoughts as me it's not not all puts your hair it's silver roses yeah it still brings you up [Music] [Music] [Music] Shelby spent her teenage years moving between her dads her aunts and her friends currently she has little contact with her dad I'd go and like stay somewhere and I just like be like oh I won't be here for long I'll be somewhere else in a couple of months at the time I was like oh they don't want me they don't care about me they don't love me obviously could they handle me Shelby ended up in a hostel before getting her own flat on the south side of Glasgow when she moved here she had nothing but I would just like I had two quotes and material pillars and that and I would just buy them there and sleep there and then because it was quite cold then because I would have been like November I was like sleeping on the floor Nicole touched her back oh it's quite HD to start with it no the social worker got this like charity they give me all the secondhand stuff the couch that unit the tail is on the table that chair to start with I was lying on the flare and then like upgraded to this but that's pretty much better as soon as you sat on it it's like for the first couple of days I was like oh I don't care this is Mathis because I just thought that everything would just be sorted and I'd have an ISO send no time but I don't know after leaving her grandparents bridie moved around Rotherham living with various family and friends but a few weeks ago she moved into a two-bed shared house after being referred to a youth housing charity although part of her rent is paid for by the housing benefit she has to manage on her income support of eight pounds a day sometimes I'll buy some clothes and stuff but mostly just like shopping and like rent and stuff well housing actually pay me rent but I have to pay um I think it's 13 pounds for like me gas and electric and stuff Brady never knew her dad and she's never lived with her mum remember I took you the crack and smack and deep stuff like that I can't say she never looked after me what she knew in a runner that she weren't able to she's ever properly mothered mirror because I mean I did it was a nun who encouraged her to join the Army Cadets I just think that in Army you've got like a lot of work to do in that but it's like you can talk really and stuff like that and meet different people and see how other people living stuff like that I think if I get done again I think this time it'll go on my record which means that I can't win Army foreign for the Army instead she got on a training course to improve her qualifications but it didn't work out so now she has little to fill her days I chose to be another mates and do what I wanted to do and look where they got me nowhere I don't want discipline but I need it to to be able to carry on living without discipline I'm going to be a bit [ __ ] really I don't want to sit and have this lifestyle for the rest of my life [Music] quite sad like a spin a lot of time up here just looking oven [Music] oh my God that's nice sad though I'm 17 and like it's looking at the window and I don't mean like I think was anybody always made sitting there sort of time like board and there's always people fighting and stuff like because you'll get people that are drunk and then they've been in there and they're just be making up your Philadelphia when it's quite funny but yeah you want some more Amber's also got more time on her hands you push it back a spoon then you can't reach it she's decided that continuing with the beauty course is too difficult um her friend Sammy became a mum six months ago and relies on benefits this will be Amber's only option as well so she's made an application for income support open your mouth then for both pregnancy has meant completely rethinking their Futures I don't think they were gonna have kids I didn't plan for it to happen but I wouldn't change it because obviously I was expecting it to be a lot later when I was having children talked about babies sometimes but we'd rather just chill and listen to music yeah listen to music and the proper teenagers really and then that's I think that's why it's a shocker that will birth but then to be quite honest I didn't want a kid I saw a dead set on everyone in my career at college and stuff even though I'll be in a [ __ ] at home I wanted my career I wanted to like get a job and everything and then have children when I found someone but then it just you know we always said if we ever had a baby I want there get rid of it because it's well tight I wonder about rid of him there's no way I do done that I thought I'm not going to be a cop I didn't know about the money schemes and stuff like that I thought I'm not gonna have no money what am I gonna do obviously at the beginning I'm not Dull but what am I supposed to do you know I need to provide for my baby so I ain't got much of a choice at the moment you know it's gonna be way harder if we're on his own 55 is what I get that's all I've got top on and then breads a pound and milk to pound I've got bread milk a fresh finger thing um cereal chips crust juice cold meat and cheese that comes to 1450 so leave me 40 pounds 50. before they've done the budgeting you're just going to shortening I'll be all right I still want this and then it's been like 20 pounds I need no socks probably about two pounds 1250 I've left myself I probably could get more food with it and stuff but [ __ ] is a bit the only luxury I get well last week I'm getting myself socks because once I've got everything I've only got like a couple of pounds left so toilet Rooney toilet I was imagined when I was younger I would just love normally and it'd be easy just to have things and buy everything you need obviously everybody gets skin but like I'm like always skin like even when I get paid on skin [Music] whatever money usually I do or two after I get paid [Music] I would definitely better no way it's all evil there's no hope for nobody there's no there's no future for anyone can't wait to just get a bit of money behind me and then just that's it straight out of our room never mind just fell in [Music] ridey's been sentenced for the incident at Billy's house she wasn't sent down but has been hit with a 170 pound fine today she's come to see Tina who lives with Billy's mum Tina's got to know bridie well and wants her to stay out of trouble I don't realize Good Friday read and whatsoever that's when you have got to do as you told like a lump it keep the Gob shot it's not that I don't listen to people it does generally go in the edge don't stay there it goes in there and straight out of here I mean because two minutes later you've done exactly what you said you weren't gonna do because she always comes back to her to a rose which is here in film and he's not good not good because the roots here have caused nothing but trouble all our life you know it's not been good for her so she's okay and foreign but she's just got to learn to keep her mouth with some artwork 5p drink my friends win I ain't got no money I'm gonna tell her oh am I gonna live on for the next three days what I think I'm leaving on Norful can eating as it is well I fetches in this earth like just to be plonked here and then not gives enough money to explore if you get what I mean when I get paid under quid I have to get my shopping then me like my rent thing and then by the time I've done it's like right make sure I've got enough shopping to last me two weeks look regardless of what we think of the government did you give us money and they do give us enough to live on only just no offense do you know I think the sugar younger ones an extra bit we can't afford to go swimming or [ __ ] skating art at cinema and [ __ ] only eight quid what do you mean go and get a paper round yeah but I get up and get a [ __ ] job listen now [ __ ] 50 years old I'm getting done my bed and if I could get up and go out there and get a job tomorrow I would you'll never have not in this life before they're not prepared to get up off the ass no I am says because your brain's ticking for something to do and if it's not do we know you're bored so you want you're asleep yeah or on the street Friday this 17 years is not being brilliant but the next 17 years can be fantastic and 17 years after that and 17 years after that but it is only you can make it any better do you know and I'll stop sniffing I'm your foot yes I stopped sniffing stop drinking smoking next please [Music] [Music] Amber's finally heard about her Income Support claim it's not good yeah right yeah she's only eligible when 29 weeks pregnant and mistakenly she had applied too early right so what we have to do is take another look at how we do a shopping there were baths Mark so we'll have to buff stop smoking and what were the other thing we use too much of a bit of milk yeah but you're gonna have to do without the cloves it's making the best of a situation now but you're gonna eat you're gonna be warm okay I just don't want to be with no [ __ ] mum's up but I should have put myself in this position at first place but it's happened and at least I'm trying to make it work foreign following the same path and obviously I've tried to do everything and possible you are a good mom hi foreign 's going to be fine Amber will have to wait and reapply [Music] under budget I spent 10 25 so I've got like four pound left to play with so I got a nice potato [Music] furnish your empty flat shall be applied for a community care Grant she was initially refused but eventually given just enough to buy a bed fridge and microwave but for the last 10 months she's had no cooker I get this this is quite nice and there's no pound and it goes in the microwave it's just like fist fingers on like the speed burn thing that's quite nice because it's more expensive the stuff for the microwave like these chips like it's two for 250 whereas if I was to get chips that you can make nub and you get like two big giant bags for 250 and it's like do you know what I mean so it would save me money and there'd be more chips and a little bit better Mandy's got a couple from me but I just need to get like the money to like get it in a van up maybe a lot better ask if I was to be able to like just cook proper meals like the way real people there I know I've got a bag of appetite I'm always hungry like even if I'm still hungry like so I'm just like right you're just crazy you don't need me on the night you don't need more than that so if you drink too much coffee you get like this Sicky feeling and you just don't want to eat so if I don't like that then helps [Music] exactly [Music] yeah [Music] which eggs foreign [Music] no I'm not using that that's been in this market that you don't want water you want to win he wants to win what about ready [Music] today you've got a little dark line running up from your pubic line here it's going to meet your belly Amber's now six months into her pregnancy Healthy Babies wriggle around that much so it's a really really good sign right chick are you feeling all right in yourself yeah yeah yeah how are you doing with smoking well I went over there because we didn't have normal if no thanks at all so I went over there without having a sick until right right late at night from not having an unforward day you know already yeah your biggest preventable cause a baby's dying so if we can knock those stickies on there um if you had one of these I don't know right don't get horribly confused about it all right if it don't make any sense to you just sling it you Mum all right because um it's got some some information about you know you claim for child benefit and that kind of stuff if you're over 29 weeks now so my first payment should birthday excellent so I can get finally get him so much at last my uncle Mark's girlfriend she's giving me a Moses basket and stuff so excellent so all you need really is nappies in it yeah Adam I need a cap in my bedroom so that's what I'm gonna get out of my turn I'm just gonna stick rather than spending your money from your maternity Grant you could apply for a social fund loan and then they'll take it directly at ebenefit you know before it comes through because that's meant for emergency bits of Kit because you can't be without for example a cooker or a bed can you can an eat those things are absolutely essential I need to remember everything I always forget everything do not put alerts in your phone I said everything oh all right let's find a world hi sweetheart I think we're all sorted and done and dusted dealing with the realities of adulthood has become even harder for bridie her debts have caught up with her and now her home is at risk I was able to tell me a letter saying that I'm going to pay my arrears off of why they've got like three weeks to get out how much is the renter is I think it's about 180 so we are and what's your weekly rent ing do you mind me asking why you haven't been able to pay it I just didn't pay it I just let it build up have you been worried a bit yeah because I've got refined to be off as well so there's not much I can do but for Shelby things are looking up no left colleague at work with a van he's helping a collector aunt's old cooker I'm fine at the front behind you for lunch and there's an added bonus thanks to her aunt's neighbor and get to a nice coach a cooker so I'm a happy uh and Mandy's managed to find 78 pound from the family's budget to do a pamper in the baby's new room it ties it in doesn't it not really that's artworks flour if cut out not even not good I'm gonna buy a blue one more sheet and quilt yeah we can do that with your own Monica yeah being a mineral eyes just the house I don't like it's out of it I can't do nothing yet I can't decorate I can't do nothing just does your ending it's all living I just don't like it I'm gonna move in with one of my minutes there's no point worrying about future [Music] watch [Music] out hey Google I have to climb up chocolate covered together [Music] I'm gonna get my baby's footprints around Prince [Music] foreign [Music] Shelby's just discovered that the cooker has no power cable oh just about no because but I need to wait until I don't know uh there's just there's always something there's always always something never mind I've had to grow into an adult I've had to change a lot of my ways obviously at the beginning of a pregnancy I wasn't going to do it straight away because it were a big jump from being a one certain person to another certain person from being a child [ __ ] to an adult so and obviously it's had to build in time to become an adult it won't gonna just happen like that so but yeah I think you after though you have to mature you can't just you can't be a kid looking after a kid like you can't act like a child and they're looking after a child foreign adult before I could like have a baby like that is so much like I think it responsibility like having a host week can you imagine having a house and a baby just there's no way I could date it right now ready I need to go down this payment I'm a [ __ ] money back bridey's boyfriend isn't able to help with the pressure she's on [ __ ] with me no get out now she's not your [ __ ] hours is it that's it I swear we're done yeah [Music] just comes from everywhere house defined arguing everyone it's everything and then I just start screaming just like all that at once Shelby who rarely has any spare cash the options to save or borrow money are limited doorstep lenders would gladly help but at a cost while the chances of getting a loan from a High Street Bank are almost nil but she's heard of a possible alternative reason for coming in no it was a friend it told me the main purpose of our credit union is that the benefit of its members people who are wrong comes of people who are financially as with it are you having yourself or experience with yourself yourself yeah yeah so I can imagine be creep right Financial my finances are quite an important part of yeah have you ever had any like any problems just like money management or anything um yeah yeah sure you can see about you can make a commitment to the kit you need to deposit at least one pound and at your shares account to start up you can deposit more whatever you wish but if hyper and joining fee and apparently your shares account so when you're faster when you can borrow twice with your saved dogs if you save up 150 pounds will be 300 pounds when you're 16 but you can't borrow money legally you can't borrow money until you're 18 years old uh you'll need two forms of identification so do you have a passport or a driving license I don't have any photographs if you've got anything to me a photograph one or a student card or no this is your credit union used to helping people out in Shelby's position like saving them the cost of an ID photo yeah that's fine we'll get that printers off for you just now there's your forecaster thanks even so it would be a challenge for Shelby to find the six pound needed to open the account today is Amber's 17th birthday with the 78 pound budget for her new room all spent she can ill afford setbacks like a broken bed I don't think it was going to be like this so now I've got to get my bed removed and I've just got to stay on mattress but I'm getting another bed so that's another thing got paid out for so because obviously you're happy to wake up on your birthday be able to open presents but like I don't think it's really I'm not really bothered it's just I don't know get that birthday feeling when you're opening presents and stuff it's like you know it's your birthday then but like don't bother me if I'm not doing it it's still my birthday I might save up and get a carpet I think I could squeeze like a fiver a week are you currently employed I put currently employed oh no I've put on them Oh I thought let's see it unemployed chef I don't know like when it would come under and then I asked you your number of hours worked per week I'm doing so if you Theory I was a week that's it that's 183 I know and always minimum wage not like four pound an hour or something like five pound an hour something like that I thought about it like that um it feels like I'm getting ripped off of it I think hmm [Music] who is it who is it basically my sister spawns got pinched and now we're just trying to figure out who's got four I listen bridie 2 has got used to living without family support I like especially people you don't know he knows who it is him show me where he is I knew I had to be independent but I didn't think it'd be this hard but then again it is an experience to stand on your own two feet and be able to like not rely on everybody all the time and just be independent no would I go please no because then you've got to deal with police where you want to deal with your own way don't you please get involved you've got to do it legally you can't do what you want to do but I miss being at home I'm missing my hands I miss it now because there's nobody there to say oh well you're doing this wrong or you can do this this way you're still gonna have not what you need at least doing this it gets out of the way and then when you get some more money you can go buy some bloody Claws and stop making your sisters you're funny you are yeah Amber's Income Support claim has finally been accepted I'm richer than you Mom it's free money but then we won't be able to live if we didn't have it no one would be able to live a footing of it because there's so many people on door so many people are you happy that you get in the carpet are you that down because you want other stuff sometimes [Music] just look at the cheaper ones for now is it all right for me but don't pull them out but 6 6 pound that size 3.99 number like you can't just use your living expenses on them if you like them they'd look nice in your room is that with Wonderland I can pay it all today thank you everybody struggles everybody finds it hard to pay for things and I know some people have it a lot worse off than me but um she is the one that's been there every step every single day [Music] I think my life could have been a lot easier if I were to just behave myself and I was nervous chicken in my dad sitting over there get kicked it there's a little bit like college I've put in holidays and stuff because I would have had the financial support [Music] after not seeing each other for six months Shelby decided to make contact with her dad she wanted to show him how much she's changed um my dad come up 15 back of Karen for me it was good like just I don't know like then the Korean and Luke lie on it off it was good like then somewhere with her dad's help Shelby's able to have a proper meal at last because man it makes certain stuff and so does my granny so oh after making this how much money will you have left nothing I've got no more money for the like the rest of the week I've only got a good 90 yard pins like David Cameron was supposedly supposed to be Stoughton housing benefit for people under 25. which it works for because like I don't know like I'm getting housing benefit but I'm still working so but if you've done that right now then I would know what to do like I believe I could still notice that'd probably be like I don't know better horses or something everybody's get problems obviously like people with my neighbors now have problems just no money problems it's ready I like that I have just made my first person [Music] Shelby Amber and bridie the summer is drawing to a close still unable to pay her rent arrears bridie has been staying away from home instead she's been living with Tina tonight her mate Rachel is having a house party across the road beers drugs that's all you need I've got indominus covert they're a glass of Auckland Court aren't they bridie is now thinking she may move in with Rachel well I don't know if it'll be about good on but basically like because I don't like being on my own she's on her own she's got a two-bedroomed house and I said to her I've got our front decorations and stuff like that so might as well get a go this will be in my room [Music] have you even got a little wardrobe about the other house I think that's the Rachel's family um I'm gonna decorate but I don't know what color yet I'm hoping like a pinky purple or pinky purple and a black or a blue and a black really if they offer your painkillers just have them don't be too brave kid yeah thank you said that you're all right we're doing fantastic you know oh my God I think when I was a baby girl like kind of like seven eight that was so easy like I don't know I've been just happens the way it happens like you don't know like a child for so long and then like it's up to you you make what you want to make your life really I can't believe I'm a woman so happy I don't feel like bad about where my life is it's no idea but I'm still only 17 that I've got a lot of time [Music] make what I want to make in my life so I don't know it's just a kind of temporary position hopefully well it's not being easy and kind of wanting to know that as well because obviously a lot of children copy the mums and dads if you'll make it up to me some time for putting me through all this you weren't born and you serve to have an easy life I'm only 17. I've not seen life yet I've got all them foreign [Music] baby [Music]

Channel: Absolute Documentaries

Views: 137,612

Keywords: British poverty, British society, British society issues, challenges of growing up poor, documentary on poverty, economic challenges, economic hardships, growing up poor, impoverished adolescents, poverty epidemic, poverty solutions, social inequality, socio-economic issues, stories of poverty, teenagers in poverty, tough lives of teenagers, young adults, youth unemployment, youth unemployment crisis

Id: i0gZsGJgKxw

Length: 113min 50sec (6830 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 16 2022