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Skint
2013 · TV series · documentary · 30 min episodes · 2 seasons
Skint is a documentary series which follows the lives of a group of unemployed people living in Scunthorpe, north Lincolnshire highlighting social issues such as crime, welfare dependency, truancy and addiction.
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Is there anyone doing better reporting of poverty in childhood?
Or is the problem more around behaviours and societal stuff than money?
A Channel 4 documentary is a poor source of information but the breadth and depth of the problem is shown in programmes like Skint. The nihilism of multiple generations, the apathy, the learned hopelessness. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/skint/4od
While these people may not be objectively poor[1] the children have obviously sub-optimal lives.
[1] People have homes, and food, and heat.