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'Desperate and alone': Teenagers in care 'abandoned' to gangs
The BBC's Newsnight has found that the number of looked-after children living in unregulated homes has risen by 70% in a decade. Many of them have reportedly beenPolice say such premises are easy pickings for those wanting to push young people into a life of crime. Amy, who was left in an unregistered home aged 16, remembers feeling"freezing cold" and"desperate and very alone".
For a girl who had grown up with travel magazines plastered over her bedroom walls, with ambitions of eventually becoming a doctor, the deterioration was devastating."I lost all semblance of what made me 'me'," Hailey says."I went from being strong and independent to totally dependent on my parents for daily tasks - my mom quit her job to help me full time.
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