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Documentary centred around teenager Kizzy Neal, who became pregnant to a 13-year-old boy who left town when he heard the news.
Britain has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in western Europe, and Torbay, where Kizzy lives, has one of the highest in the country.
The film follows Kizzy through her pregnancy and the first six months of the infant's life as she struggles to come to terms with her enormous responsibilities and battles to get the baby's father to acknowledge his child.
Documentary about 12-year-old Melissa and 14-year-old Ryan as they look after their single mum, who suffers from mental and physical illnesses. For the past five years they've taken on the household responsibilities and are just two of the 175,000 young carers in Britain today. The film looks at how they are coping with their mum's increasing ill-health and asks whether, without any outside help, they'll ever be able to leave her and lead independent lives.
Documentary which gives an insight into the phenomenon of self-harming teenagers by following three young people who have resorted to it as a way of coping with what life has thrown at them. Beth is 15 and suffers from arthritis and has self-harmed as a reaction to bullying at school. Tor, now 24, began cutting herself at the same age while under pressure to get good grades, and is still doing so. Gary, now 20, has been self-harming since 13 when he went to live in a children's home.
Documentary looking at the increasing problem of child poverty in the UK. In Glasgow, two teenage boys steer a path through the gang fighting, drinking, drug dealing and crime. In Mansfield, a four year-old-girl becomes homeless when her mother is a victim of domestic violence. In London, a 10-year-old Bangladeshi girl studies hard to escape her background. The film reveals the courage and determination they all share to rise above their circumstances and break out of their cycle of poverty.
