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This might be an interesting experiment:

Chantelle Chav is sixteen years old. Currently she lives at home on a council estate with her mother and several siblings. Chantelle is just about to leave school, she has no qualifications and can just about manage to read The Sun (reading age 11.). In a few weeks time she will give birth to her first child. The child will be of mixed race, though Chantelle has ended her relationship with her child's father and now has a new boyfriend, Dean.

Dean is seventeen years old and, like Chantelle, left school without qualifications. He is functionally innumerate and illiterate (Dyslexia). He also lives at home with his parents.

Chantelle and Dean have both been before the courts on several occaisions for minor offences and Dean is currently completing a 100 hour Community Service Order for possesion with intent to supply a class B drug.

Chantelle will have to leave home when her baby is born and she would like to set up a home on her own with Dean. Neither of them have a bank account or savings.

What sort of assistance can they expect from society?