"Provocative and revealing documentary stories
of how people survive without work"
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/skint
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"Dean used to work at the steelworks in Scunthorpe,
but now he, his wife and their seven children
and stepchildren get by on benefits.
Dean is a guide to his world, where being out
of work is nothing out of the ordinary, where
people do what they can to survive and
where keeping your kids on the straight
and narrow is a challenge.
On Dean's estate, the film follows the shoplifter
who sells stolen deodorant on the cheap
and a 15-year-old boy who has been excluded
from seven different schools.
For them and many others
across the country,
this is what it means to be skint."
Feck me its a real life Shamless