Filmed over one summer Poor Teens follows three very different teenage boys. All on the cusp of adulthood and dealing with the normal pressures of growing up with one similarity – they are all having to survive on under a tenner a day.

Over 300,000 teenagers claim benefits and 1 in 5 youths in Britain are unemployed. This absolute documentary follows 3 teenage girls Amber who is 17 and pregnant, Bridie, 17 and can’t stay out of trouble, and Shelby, 17 who relies on benefits. They are all struggling to get by for many different reasons. They are caught by a disappearing childhood and an unknown future, this is their story

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