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My Homeless Son
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What happens when you’re 17 years old and you suddenly find yourself homeless?
As a child, you would expect that social services and other authorities would find you a warm and safe place to live.
What you wouldn’t expect is to be put somewhere on your own, in the cold, and at risk from serious harm.
File on 4 tells the shocking story of one teenager's experience when he found himself without a roof over his head.
His mum tells the programme he would contact her in the middle of the night, depressed and lonely; “He would text me saying I’m cold, I’m hungry”. She says the fight to get her son the care and support that he needed has left them broken.
We explore the impact on both his physical and mental health and ask why he was let down? Is his case one of a kind? Or are other local authorities failing in their duty to provide the right care and support for homeless young people?
Reporter: Emma Forde Producer: Matthew Chapman Editor: Gail Champion
Photo credit; Photofusion\Getty
439 episodes
Manage episode 220002282 series 1301229
What happens when you’re 17 years old and you suddenly find yourself homeless?
As a child, you would expect that social services and other authorities would find you a warm and safe place to live.
What you wouldn’t expect is to be put somewhere on your own, in the cold, and at risk from serious harm.
File on 4 tells the shocking story of one teenager's experience when he found himself without a roof over his head.
His mum tells the programme he would contact her in the middle of the night, depressed and lonely; “He would text me saying I’m cold, I’m hungry”. She says the fight to get her son the care and support that he needed has left them broken.
We explore the impact on both his physical and mental health and ask why he was let down? Is his case one of a kind? Or are other local authorities failing in their duty to provide the right care and support for homeless young people?
Reporter: Emma Forde Producer: Matthew Chapman Editor: Gail Champion
Photo credit; Photofusion\Getty
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