Suitable for teaching 15-16s. This clip explores teenage poverty and unemployment. We see 17-year-old Shelby describing how she tries to budget but often runs out of money and is constantly hungry. Shelby lives on her own and reflects on the difficulties in her family relationships that have led to her current situation, and how difficult it is to live without parental support. Finally we learn that a few weeks later she discovers she is pregnant and therefore fails to secure a full time job at her placement. WARNING: Contains behaviour which could be imitated.
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Shelby is 17 and lives on her own in Glasgow. Shelby describes her experiences of being unemployed. Now on a work placement scheme, she discusses the difference this has made to her. However, the pay is only £55 per week, the same as her job seekers allowance was.
Shelby tries to budget but often runs out of money and is constantly hungry. We see her struggle to furnish her flat, and having to seek help from a credit union. Shelby reflects on the difficulties in her family relationships that have led to her current situation and describes how difficult it is to live without parental support.
Finally we learn that a few weeks later she discovers she is pregnant and therefore fails to secure a full time job at her placement.
This clip is from the BBC series Growing up Poor: Following teenagers dealing with the pressures of growing up with one similarity - they are all surviving on under £10 a day.
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Teaching PSHE/Modern Studies?
This clip could act as a stimulus for a research project looking at youth unemployment and young people living in poverty either locally or nationally. Research could include the range of social and financial support services available to young people and the limitations of those services. Pupils could explore the choices or actions that young people living in poverty can take to help themselves. They could also look at factors that might inhibit or limit those choices and actions, as well as the risks and possible consequences of different choices.
This clip will be relevant for teaching Modern Studies. This topic appears in OCR, Edexcel, AQA, WJEC KS4/GCSE in England and Wales, CCEA GCSE in Northern Ireland and SQA National 4/5 in Scotland.
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