:00:31. > :00:37.THIS PROGRAMME CONTAINS STRONG Getting arrested man, causing
:00:37. > :00:43.trouble, smashing cars. It's all them smackheads up there. Welcome
:00:43. > :00:50.to Shadsworth. I terrorized him for, like, the past two year and that.
:00:50. > :00:56.An estate where kids are growing up in tough times. Do ASBOs work?
:00:56. > :01:01.do they BLEEP! And families are under pressure. Like Olwen, a
:01:01. > :01:05.single mum on benefits who says she's unable to work. Pissed off!
:01:05. > :01:09.I've got better things to do than keep jogging down here every couple
:01:09. > :01:15.of week looking for a job. Life is already a struggle for her eight-
:01:15. > :01:20.year-old. When my Dad don't see me, that makes me sad. Like the
:01:20. > :01:27.Lancasters, where money is tight. After rent, food and bills how much
:01:27. > :01:37.is left? On Friday, probably about �2. But who want a better life for
:01:37. > :01:37.
:01:37. > :01:42.their children. Sometimes I cry about it. Why? Because it's not the
:01:42. > :01:45.way I want to live. And like Sue and Ed. Their eldest son already
:01:45. > :01:48.fears for his future. What would have happened to you in three, four,
:01:48. > :01:58.five years? I reckon I probably would end up in prison. And wants
:01:58. > :01:59.
:01:59. > :02:07.to leave the estate. I do want him All of this when anti-social
:02:07. > :02:15.behaviour and drugs are at the door. I know 12 years olds who sniff
:02:15. > :02:19.Bubble. It's dirty. We meet the dealers. How much is that? 20 quid.
:02:19. > :02:25.And those whose job it is to stop them. Drugs are readily available.
:02:25. > :02:32.Does that mean you've failed then? No, not at all. Is this a picture
:02:32. > :02:36.of Broken Britain? We follow life on a tough estate. Kids just grow
:02:36. > :02:46.up to be like their mum and dad, man. It's not fair, is it? They're
:02:46. > :03:16.
:03:16. > :03:21.being brought up between drugs and Shadsworth is not some lost estate.
:03:21. > :03:26.It's full of families with hopes and aspirations. This swimming pool
:03:26. > :03:31.was saved by the people of the estate. Our children use it every
:03:32. > :03:35.single day. And it was like what will we do with the kids? Should
:03:35. > :03:41.they just be on the streets and that? Faced with cuts to the
:03:41. > :03:47.council budget, the plan was to shut the pool. We decided to set up
:03:47. > :03:54.petitions to keep it open and we started demonstrations. They fought
:03:54. > :03:58.hard for the kids. There's a lot of underage drinking and smoking and
:03:58. > :04:08.drugs. It's such a big thing here. And it's more the under 18s.
:04:08. > :04:13.
:04:13. > :04:18.they won. But not everything can be The estate faces much bigger
:04:18. > :04:24.threats. There are problems here that can't be driven away by a
:04:24. > :04:31.petition or goodwill. Shadsworth sits on the outskirts of Blackburn
:04:31. > :04:41.in the North-West of England. More than 2,000 people live on the
:04:41. > :04:48.
:04:48. > :04:51.Everyone who lives here calls it Shad. Even before this recession it
:04:51. > :04:54.was one of the most deprived places in the country. We've spent months
:04:54. > :05:04.here with families who have shared their lives with us. Each with
:05:04. > :05:16.
:05:16. > :05:22.their own story of life on one of Both? Knife? Thank you. I'm going
:05:22. > :05:26.upstairs now. Olwen Page is a single mum of four. It's teatime
:05:26. > :05:32.and her youngest son, Oshi, is nowhere to be seen. I wonder where
:05:32. > :05:37.he's gone? Shithead, isn't he? Olwen was born in Kent but has
:05:37. > :05:47.spent 20 years on Shad. A series of difficult relationships have
:05:47. > :05:56.Oshi! I told you not to disappear. Tea's ready. My mate gave me this.
:05:56. > :05:59.I was battered badly. And it's horrible, you know. You look back
:05:59. > :06:02.and now I can't believe I put my children through all that. Why I
:06:02. > :06:07.didn't get out after the first smack in the mouth? First head
:06:07. > :06:10.butt? I didn't get out. It does me head in. You getting me up for
:06:10. > :06:13.nowt? I'm not getting you up for nowt. It's not nowt. It's nothing.
:06:14. > :06:17.And it's not nothing. It's going to college. Two of Olwen's kids have
:06:18. > :06:21.grown up. But two still depend on her. 17-year-old Alisha. I'm going
:06:21. > :06:30.to Paradise today, Mum. Paradise, are you? And eight-year-old Oshi.
:06:30. > :06:37.They have different Dads. Both are absent. Is it nice? No. What do you
:06:37. > :06:44.mean no? It tastes of wine. Tastes of wine? Yeah. I haven't put any
:06:44. > :06:48.wine in it. Only joking. It's well good. Yeah, I know. But it's not
:06:48. > :06:55.better than Liam's mum's. Yeah, it is! You get his mum here and get
:06:55. > :06:58.her to make one and then we'll see. People can look and say you've got
:06:58. > :07:02.four kids by three different dads but they haven't walked in my shoes.
:07:02. > :07:09.You know, and it wasn't like just having kids for the sake of having
:07:09. > :07:14.Try not to get that down your top cos it might stain. No, no, don't
:07:15. > :07:18.stain! It won't stain. I'll put it on a 90.
:07:18. > :07:23.Oshi not seeing his dad and he doesn't understand why, you know. I
:07:23. > :07:26.think my dad's dead. That's why he doesn't come and see me. And I say,
:07:26. > :07:34."He's not dead, Oshi, you know, he's alive and he just doesn't
:07:34. > :07:36.bother with you." Take that off and I'll get you another t-shirt.
:07:36. > :07:42.On average, per person, Blackburn has one of the highest welfare
:07:42. > :07:52.bills in the country. Olwen lives on benefits. She gets around �1,100
:07:52. > :07:57.
:07:57. > :08:02.a month to support her and her Cheaper! I'll put it back then.
:08:02. > :08:05.Even for families with a wage coming in it's a struggle. Pork and
:08:05. > :08:13.pineapple kebabs. Vicky and Andy Lancaster live on the street behind
:08:13. > :08:18.Olwen. Vicky's been on the Shadsworth estate all her life.
:08:18. > :08:24.these ones instead? You get eight for �3. Since the recession started,
:08:24. > :08:27.like the rest of the country, unemployment here has risen. For a
:08:27. > :08:36.time last year, both Andy and Vicky were out of work and family life
:08:36. > :08:40.became much harder. �1 for three. We can get six for �2.
:08:40. > :08:44.It's just like, get paid tomorrow, get the shopping, pay the bills, go
:08:45. > :08:54.back to work, be skint, back to work. And two weeks' time, do it
:08:55. > :08:55.
:08:55. > :09:05.all again. 40 for �2. Last a while! Sometimes I cry about it. Why?
:09:05. > :09:16.
:09:16. > :09:19.Vicky used to work as a shop assistant until being laid off.
:09:19. > :09:25.felt like my world had been shattered because we had so many
:09:25. > :09:29.plans. She now stays at home with their two children, Libby and Leon.
:09:29. > :09:39.Get your bags. Andy had a job in a factory and now works part-time as
:09:39. > :09:40.
:09:40. > :09:45.a cleaner. But his is the only wage How hard is it when it's tight like
:09:45. > :09:49.it is now? I get just short of �100 per week. We put in enough gas and
:09:49. > :09:55.electric to last a week. We pay two bills, and there's not much left,
:09:55. > :10:05.really, is there? So after rent, food and bills, how much is left?
:10:05. > :10:15.
:10:15. > :10:23.It's half-term week and further down the road, a front garden is
:10:23. > :10:33.full of children. This is the Morrison house. They can be
:10:33. > :10:33.
:10:33. > :10:40.annoying, very annoying. Especially Edward Morrison and Sue Kirkham
:10:40. > :10:46.have lived on the estate for 13 years. They have four boys aged
:10:46. > :10:52.between 10 and 15. When we first moved here it was right nice and
:10:52. > :10:56.quiet and after all these years it's gone bad. Ed and Sue want to
:10:56. > :11:03.leave the estate. They think the longer they're on Shadsworth, the
:11:03. > :11:11.worse it will be for their boys. Well, don't do it then! Sort it out.
:11:11. > :11:14.No trouble round here or I'll beat It's just all their friends and the
:11:14. > :11:17.attitude of their friends. All of a sudden someone will have taken a
:11:17. > :11:20.bike off them or stole something off them, stole their mobile phone
:11:20. > :11:26.off them. It makes you more determined to get away from this
:11:26. > :11:29.place. He wants to ring Aunty Amanda. He wants to stay at Aunty
:11:29. > :11:33.Amanda's. I didn't want move really, to be honest. But now, all of a
:11:33. > :11:38.sudden, I can't take it no more. I want to move. I said to Edward,
:11:38. > :11:44."I'd like to move off here as soon as we can. I've got fed up of it. I
:11:44. > :11:48.can't take no more." You have to beat up this guy. Strong. Is he
:11:48. > :11:52.proper strong? Not proper strong. The eldest of the Morrison's four
:11:52. > :11:59.boys is 15-year-old Jordan. He's desperate to get away from the
:12:00. > :12:06.estate. And the trouble. When I were 10-ish, it used to be OK. Cos
:12:06. > :12:16.now I'm 15, it's gone pretty rough. Yeah, out on the pedal bikes, skate
:12:16. > :12:27.
:12:28. > :12:35.Vicky and Andy also worry about how their eight-year-old son Leon might
:12:35. > :12:41.be influenced by life on the estate. Thank you, mummy. Leon, he's easily
:12:41. > :12:50.led. He's at that age where if someone said to him, "You do this"
:12:50. > :12:54.he probably would try and do Ireland's on again tonight but you
:12:54. > :12:58.won't be able to watch it because you'll be in bed. Some parents
:12:58. > :13:01.don't care what their children do. Grafitti on everything and harass
:13:01. > :13:07.other neighbours. One of our neighbours just moved recently
:13:07. > :13:13.because of harassment. Just across the road actually. So they just
:13:13. > :13:23.don't care what they're doing. some find it harder to avoid the
:13:23. > :13:31.
:13:31. > :13:40.I go out and stay to meself and let He has learning difficulties and
:13:40. > :13:44.lives alone. They try to wind me up knocking at door and running. Or
:13:44. > :13:49.banging at door, banging at windows and running. They think, "Oh, he'll
:13:49. > :13:55.come out and give them a mouthful." And how often does that happen?
:13:55. > :14:03.mostly every night. It's like screaming at the top of their
:14:03. > :14:07.voices. "Big fat bastard. Pervert." You name it they say it. And it's
:14:07. > :14:17.children stand outside your house and shout at you? Yeah, from nine
:14:17. > :14:25.
:14:25. > :14:34.My problem is the long ginnel up Or like Janet who's targeted
:14:34. > :14:41.because of where her house is. the throwing stuff over. I'd be hit
:14:41. > :14:48.with stones. I've been hit with People coming over and using it
:14:48. > :14:58.like a toilet. It's disgusting. I hate it. I absolutely hate where I
:14:58. > :15:02.
:15:02. > :15:05.And this is what causes so much In Shadsworth, anti-social
:15:05. > :15:15.behaviour accounts for more than half of all incidents dealt with by
:15:15. > :15:16.
:15:16. > :15:24.the police. This group are throwing Alan! Jessie Volkert is notorious
:15:24. > :15:27.on Shadsworth as a trouble maker. About age 14, innit? Growing up and
:15:27. > :15:34.that watching all the older lots and growing up and stuff. Obviously
:15:34. > :15:38.you want to be like them. And, I don't know, it's weird. Jessie was
:15:38. > :15:42.part a gang that, for a time, terrorized the estate. The police
:15:42. > :15:48.used anti-social behaviour orders to try to control them. Jessie is
:15:48. > :15:52.still on his. We'll say we're thugs but we want to sort ourselves out.
:15:52. > :15:55.But we've been brought up in the gutter, you know what I mean?
:15:55. > :16:00.ASBO bans him from parts of the estate. But Jessie blatantly
:16:00. > :16:04.ignores it. Do ASBOs work? Do they lock! I'm
:16:04. > :16:07.not allowed all way round here. Yeah, I'm not allowed up there. I'm
:16:07. > :16:10.not allowed up there or nothing. You're not allowed here. Lock em
:16:10. > :16:16.anyway. I'm barred from everywhere. Every street, everywhere except for
:16:16. > :16:22.one. My route home, innit? Jessie and the gang were at their worst
:16:22. > :16:30.when they targetted the estate's shopkeeper. 10, 15 outside, used to
:16:30. > :16:34.be loads. You know, shouting and screaming, saying swear words.
:16:34. > :16:41.Throwing eggs on us when we standing on the till. It was really
:16:41. > :16:46.bad. Terrorising him all the time, and stealing crates of beer and
:16:46. > :16:50.shit and getting off. Terrorised him for the past two years.
:16:50. > :16:58.Sometimes racist comments as well. Black bastard, Taxi, things like
:16:58. > :17:02.that. Did they threaten you? Yeah, they did they did threaten me. They
:17:03. > :17:06.would say, "We're going to burn your shop". Smile for the camera!
:17:06. > :17:08.Go on, let's have a smile. Though the police cracked down on Jessie
:17:08. > :17:12.and the gang, anti-social behaviour eats away at estates like
:17:12. > :17:19.Shadsworth. And families worry about their children getting sucked
:17:19. > :17:24.in. Honestly, just got out of control, innit? Sniffing and that.
:17:24. > :17:28.Taking coke every day when I was a kid and that. Got out of order and
:17:28. > :17:32.shit. Only out four-week of jail and got a recall for six month back
:17:32. > :17:36.to prison and that. Got back. I were out for six week. Got a recall
:17:36. > :17:40.back to prison and that. Got back out and got done for possession of
:17:40. > :17:46.firearm and locking back in jail and that. And I'm now, innit, on
:17:46. > :17:50.licence and shit. I don't want none of that. Lock that. But I know I'm
:17:50. > :17:54.going to end up back inside by the end of this week or whatever.
:17:54. > :17:57.the end of this week? Probably, yes. It's longest I've stayed out of
:17:58. > :18:02.jail. How long have I been out of jail now, Smithy? About a week and
:18:02. > :18:05.a half. About a week and a half. I'm proud I'm still out. And days
:18:05. > :18:15.later, Jessie was back inside, accused of theft, criminal damage
:18:15. > :18:19.
:18:19. > :18:29.Lock off, Moorey, bang! Jake Walsh was part of Jessie's
:18:29. > :18:33.
:18:33. > :18:39.What would you want to do though? Don't know! Alan, you can get on
:18:39. > :18:47.TV! He was 14 back then. Oi, he's got a camera! Now he's 17, he lives
:18:47. > :18:53.off the estate but still comes back What do you come back to Shad for?
:18:53. > :19:03.See my mates and my mum. What do you do here? Just hang around with
:19:03. > :19:09.
:19:09. > :19:13.What was your childhood like? Crazy! Why was it crazy? Getting
:19:13. > :19:18.arrested, man. Causing trouble smashing cars, smoking drugs.
:19:18. > :19:24.sort of age are we talking about? When I started getting into
:19:24. > :19:28.trouble? About 10, 11, 12. 12, the first time I got arrested, I think.
:19:28. > :19:31.Why were you doing all these things? Bored. Nothing to do.
:19:31. > :19:35.I get bored but I don't go smashing cars. But you're older, innit?
:19:35. > :19:45.That's what kids do. When did you stop doing that? Getting took into
:19:45. > :19:56.
:19:56. > :20:01.There are other ways of trying to Do you want some skins? I've got
:20:01. > :20:04.enough. Four or five? Look I'm going. From the age of 11, Olwen's
:20:04. > :20:14.daughter Alisha was involved in anti-social behaviour. Bye, mucky
:20:14. > :20:15.
:20:15. > :20:18.I used to get in trouble a lot. Get chases and stuff. Get in with the
:20:18. > :20:23.wrong crowd. Like, if you're chucking stones at windows they'll
:20:23. > :20:27.come and chase you. Like, cos there was nowt to do, so used to go round
:20:27. > :20:30.in gangs. I'm not saying she was innocent. She was hanging around
:20:30. > :20:36.with them when they were doing it. It's just as bad as doing it.
:20:36. > :20:42.That's what I told her. Breaking fences, chucking little stones at
:20:42. > :20:45.windows, calling people, all sorts. I dreaded Alisha going out. I
:20:45. > :20:49.dreaded her going to school. I dreaded the phone ringing saying,
:20:49. > :20:52."Can you come up?" There was just no talking to Alisha. Alisha and I
:20:52. > :20:56.didn't know each other. Like she just was not my child. It was a
:20:56. > :21:02.really bad time. Alisha's trouble causing on the
:21:02. > :21:06.estate only stopped when the family was warned they could be evicted.
:21:06. > :21:10.My mum was going to lose her house it got that bad, so I had to stay
:21:10. > :21:19.in or else we were going to lose the house. I just found it better.
:21:19. > :21:26.I stayed in with DVDs and chilled They just had me down at meetings
:21:26. > :21:31.saying, "If this goes on you will lose your house." Awful, awful. I
:21:31. > :21:41.kept her in for three months. I thought, "If I keep her in she
:21:41. > :21:44.
:21:44. > :21:49.Bloody move! Not funny. Meant to be bloody holidays. Get to sleep in
:21:49. > :21:54.bed. But how the friggin hell can ya? Oh, stop being so grumpy!
:21:54. > :22:03.They've been awake a while. Yeah, but I bloody weren't hearing knock
:22:03. > :22:09.The Morrisons' eldest son Jordan has had enough of the estate. He's
:22:09. > :22:17.left the family home and Sue wants him back. I do miss you, lad. I
:22:17. > :22:21.would like you back home, you know? Yeah I know. So why can't you?
:22:21. > :22:25.don't know, Mum. I used to enjoy your help in house and going
:22:25. > :22:35.shopping with us. I'm going, Mum, cos I'm watching Jeremy Kyle.
:22:35. > :22:36.
:22:36. > :22:46.will you let me know? I don't know. Though he's only 15, Sue can't stop
:22:46. > :22:50.
:22:50. > :22:53.He's moved to his aunt's a mile away. And is now much nearer to his
:22:53. > :22:58.girlfriend. He says Shadsworth means trouble. And he's determined
:22:58. > :23:06.not to go back. When I don't go out I stay out of trouble and it's all
:23:06. > :23:12.right. But if I go out I end up bricking their houses windows and
:23:12. > :23:19.bricking cars. Tell us what happened? I was with
:23:19. > :23:25.my mates near a park. A car drove past and I threw a brick at it. It
:23:25. > :23:35.didn't smash or owt, but it dented the side of car and scratched it.
:23:35. > :23:39.They stopped, came over, and said, "Good job that weren't the window.
:23:39. > :23:42.If I had a passenger could have be killed or summat." You say there's
:23:42. > :23:46.trouble on the estate but the trouble most people are frightened
:23:46. > :23:53.of is you and your mates? I only came up here to get away from all
:23:53. > :23:57.my mates and now I've got new mates. If you stayed on the estate, where
:23:57. > :24:07.do you think you'd be in three or four or five years? I reckon I
:24:07. > :24:18.
:24:18. > :24:23.The Morrisons are also worried about their second son, Mark. That,
:24:23. > :24:30.at 13, he too is on the wrong track. They stress me out. I feel like
:24:30. > :24:34.killing them. I think anybody would. This is what it's like. If Edward
:24:34. > :24:38.was here he'd say, "Don't talk to your mum like that". They say,
:24:38. > :24:46."Well, she deserves it at times." No, he wouldn't. He'd say, "Shut up
:24:46. > :24:56.going on". He's the worst one of the lot. That stresses me out.
:24:56. > :24:56.
:24:56. > :24:59.Mark's behaviour has already got He's had quite a few fights at
:24:59. > :25:03.school, hasn't he? He's hit a teacher on one occasion. What did
:25:03. > :25:13.you think when you heard that? was shocked. I grounded him and
:25:13. > :25:30.
:25:30. > :25:34.keeping him in and stay away from You hurt a teacher, didn't you?
:25:34. > :25:38.What happened to the teacher? been messing in queue, yeah? So
:25:38. > :25:43.then I went there one day for my dinner and he wouldn't let me so I
:25:43. > :25:53.hit him. What, in the face? here. What did you hit him with?
:25:53. > :26:00.
:26:00. > :26:03.Oshi too has had problems. Earlier this year he was permanently
:26:03. > :26:07.excluded from school and is now taught in a unit for difficult kids.
:26:07. > :26:15.A reasonable day but missed a lot of golden time due to having to
:26:15. > :26:20.Why are you starting to be naughty? I'm not. Olwen thinks school hasn't
:26:20. > :26:24.worked for Oshi. I didn't want him going to school.
:26:24. > :26:29.Wanted him with me. So he had a lot of time off. What was going through
:26:29. > :26:32.your head to keep him off school? You must know that was harming him?
:26:32. > :26:38.No, because when they go to school your children change and I didn't
:26:38. > :26:48.want him changing. I didn't want outside influence in him, you know.
:26:48. > :26:53.
:26:53. > :26:57.I don't see why they have to go to Jordan Morrison has had problems at
:26:57. > :27:07.school as well, so two days a week he comes here to Fernhurst on the
:27:07. > :27:08.
:27:08. > :27:14.Some of the children here have difficult backgrounds. Exclusion,
:27:14. > :27:20.violence and anti-social behaviour. All right, lads, you all right?
:27:20. > :27:24.Where you off to this morning? Are you not going out? Saw you coming
:27:24. > :27:27.off your bike the other day. It was a classic.
:27:27. > :27:33.George Sinclair is the head at Fernhurst, which steps in when
:27:33. > :27:36.children in local mainstream schools are struggling.
:27:36. > :27:40.There are a lot of children whose lives are blighted by the
:27:40. > :27:48.addictions of their parents. Their lives are blighted by difficult
:27:48. > :27:55.family circumstances, broken homes or where children are in care.
:27:55. > :27:58.There are a whole range of things Don't forget that this work that
:27:58. > :28:01.you are doing, you are pretending, lads, you are pretending that you
:28:01. > :28:06.are the instructor and you're in charge of a group taking us out
:28:06. > :28:13.rock-climbing. The classes are smaller and the
:28:13. > :28:17.kids learn through activities. assessment. Mountain-biking. Come
:28:17. > :28:23.on, let's have a look. It is a more expensive to send children to
:28:23. > :28:30.Fernhurst. But should troubled kids get more resources? It's about
:28:30. > :28:33.giving them encouragement, and that hope that they can do it. It's very
:28:33. > :28:35.difficult to breakdown that cycle of deprivation, that lack of
:28:35. > :28:39.aspiration, that's not just on estates in Blackburn, but across
:28:39. > :28:45.the country. Come on, open the door. It's the
:28:45. > :28:50.police! The school can only do so much. Where the kids live is where
:28:50. > :28:52.the real challenges are. The reason we've got a drugs
:28:52. > :28:55.warrant is that we've got information that you've been
:28:55. > :29:02.growing cannabis. On Shadsworth, the police are
:29:02. > :29:12.raiding a flat. They've been tipped off that drugs are being grown here.
:29:12. > :29:16.
:29:16. > :29:26.Are you aware of the plants in the back? I'm aware someone's using
:29:26. > :29:31.
:29:31. > :29:41.He pleads horticultural ignorance. A guy I know from the pub he just
:29:41. > :29:42.
:29:42. > :29:49.said, "Can I..." I just thought Everyone we meet on the estate says
:29:49. > :29:54.drugs are pretty much everywhere. And not just cannabis.
:29:54. > :30:00.Drugs are rife on the estate. They're everywhere. Cannabis. Skunk.
:30:00. > :30:08.Bubble. Coke. Do you worry about your children growing up in that
:30:08. > :30:11.atmosphere? Yeah, but you can only teach them, can't you? The dangers,
:30:11. > :30:17.the awareness, and I'm very open with my children. Because you smoke
:30:17. > :30:20.weed, don't you? Yes, I do smoke weed. And I think the ones that do
:30:20. > :30:29.smoke weed are just placid, no bother, no trouble because they're
:30:29. > :30:35.Give us it now, you locking speccy bastard! Dan, take his ankles out!
:30:35. > :30:40.All I've done is weed. That's all I ever do. Cannabis, man. Even the
:30:40. > :30:43.young ones know all about drugs. You go on that park on that
:30:43. > :30:50.football pitch and ask one kid about drugs, they'll tell you
:30:50. > :30:55.everything about it, man. Kids just grow up to be their mum and dad.
:30:55. > :31:00.It's not fair, is it? They're being brought up between drugs and hate.
:31:00. > :31:05.So how much do the police know about drug use on the estate?
:31:05. > :31:08.a very difficult question, is that, actually. I would much rather
:31:08. > :31:17.prefer to say there are people living in Shadsworth who have drug
:31:17. > :31:27.Do people deal drugs on street corners in Shadsworth openly? Very
:31:27. > :31:31.
:31:31. > :31:37.Well, this is a street corner on Shadsworth. I didn't owe you
:31:37. > :31:44.locking �20! What? Outside the main shopping parade, a group are
:31:44. > :31:48.arguing about drugs. Why did you get another 20 quid off him?
:31:48. > :31:52.said he'd do me a good deal, right, and he'd give me 90 for �40 and I
:31:52. > :31:59.paid him. You give him 20. Within minutes of arriving at the shops,
:31:59. > :32:05.we were offered some. Do you like your wiz? Yeah, love some.
:32:05. > :32:09.after any? Yeah, yeah. You got some? Oh, of course I've got some,
:32:09. > :32:13.mate. "Wiz", or amphetamine, is a Class B drug. That's a gram there.
:32:13. > :32:16.I'll give it you for a fiver now, innit? It's good tackle as well.
:32:16. > :32:19.Trust me, mate, trust me. I say just take it easy with that stuff,
:32:19. > :32:23.mate. It's sending me locking round bend, honestly, like burning meself
:32:23. > :32:26.and shit like that. But there's one drug the whole estate is talking
:32:26. > :32:35.about. Bubble. It's a cheap, manufactured chemical that used to
:32:35. > :32:43.be legal. Now it's banned. Bubble. There's a lot of people on that, is
:32:43. > :32:49.there? Everyone's on it, everyone takes it. This one, this one...
:32:49. > :32:55.Simon is 18. So is his friend, Danny. Anthony is 21. They've all
:32:55. > :32:59.grown up on Shadsworth. Do you take it? I don't take it, no. Why do
:32:59. > :33:04.they all take it? Because it's cheap and it's a like a quick rush
:33:04. > :33:07.at the weekends. What does it do to you? People sniff it. Do you know
:33:07. > :33:13.like crystals? It's just dirty, horrible. You say everybody takes
:33:13. > :33:16.it. What age groups take it? Like 13 to old men, innit? Everyone.
:33:16. > :33:22.is it everywhere on this estate? Everywhere, everywhere. Where do
:33:23. > :33:26.they get the money from, then? lived in Shad all my life and a lot
:33:26. > :33:32.of young-uns do go out and nick stuff for the drugs. Like Anthony
:33:32. > :33:35.said, 13. I know 12-year-olds that sniff Bubble. It's dirty. People
:33:35. > :33:39.sell their mobile phones and stuff for it. They'll swap anything they
:33:39. > :33:43.can get their hands on. You get addicted to it do you? Everyone's
:33:43. > :33:49.addicted to it. It used to be everyone used to have it at
:33:49. > :33:53.weekends but now everyone's on it every day. Come here! It's meant to
:33:53. > :33:56.go on my belly button. Come here! Who wears things up there now?
:33:56. > :34:01.Simon Cowell. Not you. Olwen's daughter Alisha says Bubble is just
:34:01. > :34:05.a part of life here. I smoke cannabis. I don't take no hardcore
:34:05. > :34:10.drugs like Bubble and stuff. It's like cocaine but it gets you more
:34:10. > :34:15.wired, I think, something. You don't need to have a lot of it and
:34:15. > :34:18.I don't know... It's dangerous. lots of people take that? Yeah,
:34:18. > :34:28.when you're drinking, cos it sobers you up when you drink, so they mix
:34:28. > :34:30.
:34:30. > :34:36.it. And Bubble was easy to get hold Outside the same parade of shops,
:34:36. > :34:40.we got talking to a man called Eddie, who says his son's a dealer.
:34:40. > :34:45.Yeah, I can get it all the time. You can get it all the time? Yeah,
:34:45. > :34:49.he's my son who does it. Your son, yeah? Yeah, I put everybody on to
:34:49. > :34:57.him, do you know what I mean? He's the biggest dealer around here.
:34:57. > :35:02.Have you got ya... What ya after? Got a tenner? Yeah, I have, yeah,
:35:02. > :35:07.yeah, yeah. Thanks very much. Eddie takes us to a house and tells us to
:35:07. > :35:15.wait around the corner. Sorted. Yeah. Roll it out. It's all
:35:15. > :35:21.crystals. �10 for a gram of Bubble. Told it was a good deal, didn't I?
:35:21. > :35:31.We want to meet the dealer. What's the number? If you need it, phone
:35:31. > :35:33.
:35:33. > :35:37.it. Have you got a pen? And two days later we call. What do you
:35:37. > :35:43.want? Jay and I wondered if we could get a couple of bags?
:35:43. > :35:53.want two? Yeah. Our order is delivered by the man Eddie says his
:35:53. > :35:55.
:35:55. > :36:00.son, Chris. Is it this fella? these two lads here. One or two?
:36:00. > :36:07.Two, please, mate. Can you give them the number? How much is that?
:36:07. > :36:13.�20. I think that's what I've got. We contacted Chris McKenzie and,
:36:13. > :36:16.despite what we'd seen, he denied dealing in drugs. We have recovered
:36:16. > :36:26.and seized this compound from people up in Shadsworth, as we have
:36:26. > :36:28.
:36:28. > :36:30.It would be wrong to say on Shadsworth it's absolutely
:36:30. > :36:38.commonplace and everybody is basically consuming those types of
:36:38. > :36:42.drugs. Our team was offered drugs. That doesn't surprise me, that
:36:42. > :36:52.doesn't surprise me. But there are relatively speaking small numbers
:36:52. > :37:06.
:37:06. > :37:16.of people engaging in this type of The drugs on the estate are cheap.
:37:16. > :37:16.
:37:16. > :37:21.A fiver's all you need. This is a poor area. Yes. Ha! I'm having spam.
:37:21. > :37:27.Spam. Nearly a third of people in Blackburn of working age are not in
:37:27. > :37:30.work much higher than the national average. He's split up with Nicola.
:37:30. > :37:35.That's why he's stressing, isn't it? Olwen's not working and neither
:37:35. > :37:39.is her eldest daughter. Hello... Rhiannon also lives on the estate.
:37:39. > :37:48.You look ever so pretty. She, too, is a single mum to six-year-old
:37:48. > :37:53.Ellie-Mae. In two weeks' I'm going on holiday with my bike and you.
:37:53. > :37:58.Where's the poxy bus? Olwen hasn't had a job for eight years. She's
:37:58. > :38:03.been called into the job centre and Rhiannon goes with her. Two singles
:38:03. > :38:08.to town, please. Because she's been on benefits for a long time, she
:38:08. > :38:13.has to attend regular interviews. haven't had one this quick, you
:38:13. > :38:16.know what I mean? It's just usually every six months. It's only three
:38:16. > :38:26.weeks since Olwen's last appointment. She's not happy at
:38:26. > :38:28.
:38:28. > :38:31.being called back. Nervous. Upset. Pissed off. Why? Because I've got
:38:31. > :38:35.better things to be doing with my time than keep jogging down here
:38:35. > :38:40.every couple of week looking for a job. Olwen's last job was working
:38:40. > :38:44.an hour a day as a school lunch assistant. You only got paid for
:38:44. > :38:47.the hour but you leave at half-11. That's half an hour. You're not
:38:47. > :38:51.getting out til half-one so that's really like two hours' work you've
:38:51. > :38:56.done. You can't go to town to do what you've got to do because
:38:56. > :38:59.you've got to go to school to do your job. I don't know. I don't
:38:59. > :39:09.think there's enough incentive to get back to work. It's just an
:39:09. > :39:12.
:39:12. > :39:22.headache. Locking horrendous, RAPPING: These days, man, it's hard
:39:22. > :39:29.
:39:30. > :39:33.to prevail... Danny, Simon and Anthony are also not working.
:39:33. > :39:39.That's all I'm doing man, cos I'm locking... What does a normal day
:39:39. > :39:47.involve? I wake up at eight, run a bath. I have a nice joint while I'm
:39:47. > :39:55.in the bath. Go to the gym if he's awake. There's nothing. Just
:39:55. > :39:59.nothing. Nothing for no-one round here. I don't know anyone that
:39:59. > :40:03.works hardly. There's about three or four people I know work but
:40:03. > :40:07.they're not our age, they're your age. Old. Everyone young from about
:40:07. > :40:17.16-30 is out of work round here. Everyone. There's hardly no-one
:40:17. > :40:18.
:40:18. > :40:25.that works. Why? Why does nobody work? Cos there is no jobs.
:40:25. > :40:31.there are jobs to be had. They just don't pay well. The average weekly
:40:31. > :40:37.wage here in Blackburn is one of the lowest in the country. When
:40:37. > :40:42.Andy Lancaster lost his factory job, he found work as a cleaner. It took
:40:42. > :40:46.us ages to find a job. I got a cleaning job, which was the first
:40:46. > :40:50.one to came along, so I just took it. I'd rather have a job than look
:40:50. > :40:57.for a job. Andy does two cleaning jobs a day, earning around �100 a
:40:57. > :41:05.week. Tax credits help people on low incomes. They double Andy's
:41:05. > :41:09.wages. But government spending cuts mean fewer people now qualify.
:41:09. > :41:13.got paid last Wednesday and my wage was gone by Friday. We're looking
:41:13. > :41:16.to book a holiday but it's not going to happen. We just get the
:41:16. > :41:26.brochures. That's as far as we go cos can't afford. Just look at
:41:26. > :41:28.
:41:28. > :41:32.pictures, really. Hello! Hi, Dad. Did you have a nice day? It's been
:41:32. > :41:35.all right, sweetheart. Glad I'm home. Would you be better on
:41:35. > :41:41.benefits? Have you considered that? Yeah, probably. You get more
:41:41. > :41:44.handouts on benefits. You get rent paid, no council tax to pay. That
:41:44. > :41:49.does my head in because they're the ones who can always afford things.
:41:49. > :41:57.Yeah, the handouts. I wish I could have handouts. I have to work for
:41:57. > :42:00.my handout. It's daft. Probably the majority of people on this estate
:42:00. > :42:10.don't work and the people that do work ain't afford a lot, which I
:42:10. > :42:10.
:42:10. > :42:14.Oh, don't read out, man. Oh, did you put it on Facebook? I'm getting
:42:14. > :42:21.shagged! Why are you not getting shagged? With average wages in this
:42:21. > :42:26.area so low, some don't seem the point in working. Only jobs are
:42:26. > :42:29.cleaning jobs in Burnley, and you don't want to do that.
:42:29. > :42:37.interviewed a bloke and he only earns the same as benefits. Would
:42:37. > :42:41.you work for the same as benefits? No. Why? Why when you can get
:42:41. > :42:45.benefits? It's not a great way to think but why go to all that
:42:45. > :42:51.effort? It's common sense. But work ethic. It's that sense you get from
:42:52. > :42:56.working. What, tired? Getting up early in the morning? But you earn
:42:56. > :42:59.a wage. Does that appeal to you? It's only better off going to work
:42:59. > :43:02.if you're actually better off in the pocket. There's nothing I want
:43:03. > :43:08.to do, and you're not going to put all that effort into something you
:43:08. > :43:12.don't want to do. What did you want to do when you were growing up?
:43:12. > :43:17.When I were young I wanted to be a firefighter but I ended up being an
:43:17. > :43:24.arsonist when I were younger. is back from the job centre. So how
:43:24. > :43:28.did it go? Feel relieved. I just think right they're off my back for
:43:28. > :43:32.eight weeks if I'm lucky. If this lunchtime he'd said, "Here's a job,
:43:32. > :43:36.start tomorrow morning", how would that have felt? I would have said,
:43:36. > :43:39."You're having a laugh". I'm on that much medication. I take anti-
:43:39. > :43:43.depressants and take them at night, so therefore I'm tired in the
:43:43. > :43:47.morning. It's enough energy to get the child off to school to think
:43:47. > :43:57.about what's going on with the day, do the shopping. Just getting
:43:57. > :43:59.
:43:59. > :44:02.They've got no deals. Usually have deals on. Haven't got any deals?
:44:02. > :44:10.Even those with a wage, like Vicky and Andy, have to constantly juggle
:44:10. > :44:16.money to pay the bills. 20 on each. No, we're �5 in credit on electric.
:44:16. > :44:23.No, put ten on electric. No, 20 on each. No, 20 on gas, ten on
:44:23. > :44:26.electric. There's not much spare cash. Can we have �20 on that one?
:44:26. > :44:30.Any extra demand on the family purse brings problems, and in the
:44:30. > :44:35.past they've turned to doorstep loans. We've got two kids to buy
:44:35. > :44:38.for. We were struggling. And Leon's birthday. Yeah, Leon's birthday is
:44:39. > :44:42.two days after Christmas so we had to get that extra loans in and
:44:42. > :44:45.stuff, so we could get the extras to make their life happy, and we're
:44:45. > :44:51.still paying back now. But being in debt only added to their financial
:44:51. > :44:55.worries. How much did you borrow? 500. Over how long? A year. And how
:44:55. > :45:05.much did you pay back? 52 weeks... About �900 altogether, so about
:45:05. > :45:09.
:45:09. > :45:12.Vicky and Andy don't want their children to struggle as they have.
:45:13. > :45:20.When you think of the future for Libby and Leon, will they be on
:45:20. > :45:25.Shadsworth? I don't want them to be on this estate. It's gone down this
:45:25. > :45:30.much in 30 years I've lived here. What's it going to be like when
:45:30. > :45:33.they're older? I think it's going to get a lot, lot worse. I'd like
:45:33. > :45:37.to have them good education. The schools are good round here, so
:45:37. > :45:42.which is always a good thing, you know, and hopefully they will go on
:45:42. > :45:45.and get a good life for themselves, you know. I wish I had gone to
:45:45. > :45:52.college and Uni. That's just me. I couldn't be bothered but I want
:45:52. > :46:00.them to go. Leon always asks, "Mum, why didn't you go to college?"
:46:00. > :46:03.scoring me. You've missed one. need him to go and do something to
:46:03. > :46:06.better himself, so whether it be in this country or in another country,
:46:06. > :46:16.as long as he is successful in whatever he does, that's my main
:46:16. > :46:17.
:46:17. > :46:26.Saved by the goalie!There'll be no pocket money tomorrow! Clean your
:46:26. > :46:29.teeth! A few doors away, Olwen, too, finds life difficult. Are you done?
:46:29. > :46:37.So difficult that she gets special support from a scheme co-ordinated
:46:37. > :46:39.by the council. It's all about intervening early. Come on!
:46:39. > :46:48.Nationally, the Government is rolling out a similar project to
:46:48. > :46:53.help 120,000 of what it calls "troubled families"... Who it says
:46:53. > :46:58.cost �9 billion a year. Is that not going to be too high, all those
:46:58. > :47:04.pillows? Olwen has been helped with basic parenting skills. Things like
:47:04. > :47:12.getting Oshi to sleep in his own bed. God bless, good night.
:47:12. > :47:17.bless, good night. Love you, too. Love your smelly bones. I was
:47:17. > :47:20.really down. Not in a very nice place, felt I couldn't cope with
:47:20. > :47:30.the world and all its troubles, and they decided to put these people in
:47:30. > :47:38.
:47:38. > :47:42.place to help with me, help with Oh, Oshi! Do yer spellings! "Went"
:47:42. > :47:47.- W-E... Olwen has also been helped by the Housing Association. Good
:47:47. > :47:49.boy. So S-O... They got me carpets, they got me two skips so I could
:47:50. > :47:53.have a clear-out of absolutely everything, they paid for wallpaper
:47:53. > :47:59.and took me out to get paint. Just helped me so I could just feel
:47:59. > :48:01.better in myself. Oh, Osh, we're off now, darling! Blackburn Council
:48:01. > :48:07.says it's got ring-fenced government money to help more
:48:07. > :48:13.families. But all services here are under pressure. The council's
:48:13. > :48:19.budget has been cut by �33 million and up to 1,000 jobs could go.
:48:19. > :48:25.a super day! Love you lots! And as part of the Government's austerity
:48:25. > :48:32.measures, across all agencies there will be more cuts. All right? You
:48:32. > :48:35.OK? Hello, hello. Sometimes he is! And Shadsworth, like everywhere
:48:35. > :48:41.else, will feel them. It's very rare to catch him that way. What
:48:41. > :48:45.you been drinking? England. You've been drinking England?! French beer.
:48:45. > :48:51.Lancashire Police have had to lose jobs. More than 500 so far. Hey,
:48:51. > :48:54.stop swearing! That's out of order! You know, we've got to be honest
:48:54. > :49:02.about this and say we are in a different place than we were two or
:49:02. > :49:07.three years ago. The cuts are here for a purpose. We have to find
:49:07. > :49:11.savings in order to support the rest of the country. Where are you
:49:11. > :49:14.off to now? You off home? Yeah, he's going home. In Lancashire, we
:49:15. > :49:17.have taken some staff off the front line because we've had no choice.
:49:17. > :49:21.But most of our savings currently have come from back office
:49:21. > :49:31.functions. OK, Malc, checked everything's in order. You're free
:49:31. > :49:42.
:49:42. > :49:45.Hit it, on me arse! Olwen, too, is worried about the future. Oshi's
:49:45. > :49:51.been out of mainstream schooling since he hurt a teacher and was
:49:51. > :49:55.permanently excluded from primary school. On the Tuesday he got
:49:55. > :49:59.accused of strangling a boy. He was sent to this teacher. Apparently he
:49:59. > :50:02.was shouted at. You've had your hands round this boy's throat. He
:50:02. > :50:07.came in from school on Tuesday evening and said he hadn't done it.
:50:07. > :50:11.Fight me like a man! Fight me like a man! Fight me like a man! He went
:50:11. > :50:14.on the Friday. Apparently he'd been in trouble with these children in
:50:14. > :50:18.the playground. They then wanted to send him to this teacher that had
:50:18. > :50:26.told him off for the Tuesday incident. He then ran off into the
:50:26. > :50:30.toilets. This teacher's then pushed the toilet cubicle door. He said,
:50:30. > :50:36."f off", and pushed the door in her face and bust her lip. Oshi, I give
:50:36. > :50:45.up now. I give up now, Oshi. I give up right. Did you punish him when
:50:45. > :50:48.he was excluded? No, I didn't. Don't cry, boy, don't cry. He knows
:50:48. > :50:51.what he did was wrong. It's no good me bringing him home here and
:50:51. > :50:55.saying, "You're not going on Xbox, you're not going out, you're not
:50:55. > :50:58.having any sweets". What good is that going to do? It might teach
:50:58. > :51:01.him a lesson. Yes, but he's just been excluded from school. Hasn't
:51:01. > :51:04.he learnt his lesson there? He's not going to see his friends any
:51:04. > :51:11.more. Olwen is considering home- schooling Oshi. The thing he wants
:51:11. > :51:15.most is to see his dad. When my dad doesn't see me, that makes me sad.
:51:16. > :51:22.When was the last time you saw your dad, then? When it were my birthday.
:51:22. > :51:32.Why don't you see him? Because he couldn't be bothered to see me.
:51:32. > :51:35.
:51:35. > :51:40.you miss him? Yeah. When do you think you'll see him next? Never.
:51:40. > :51:48.Well, you might. How would that make you feel if you saw him?
:51:48. > :51:56.Do you think about it a lot? Yeah. What do you think about? Cos I can
:51:56. > :52:01.remember the times when he did see me. What was it like the last time
:52:01. > :52:06.you saw your dad? Good. Well, not that good cos he only saw me for
:52:06. > :52:10.about one minute. It was my birthday. I was sat on the floor
:52:10. > :52:16.and he sat on the floor, and then he just went. He gave my presents
:52:16. > :52:23.and then he just went. What did he say to you when he left? Nothing. I
:52:23. > :52:33.said, "Can you come and see me one day?" And he never did. Oshi's dad
:52:33. > :52:40.
:52:40. > :52:44.told us he thought it was better to Is it just T-shirts you need, then,
:52:44. > :52:52.lad? Jordan has come back home, but only briefly. To pick up more
:52:52. > :53:02.clothes. What have you been doing at Fernhurst today? Nowt. Just gone
:53:02. > :53:06.
:53:06. > :53:09.bike riding. Kyle, behave. No. just explained to him that I look
:53:09. > :53:17.at that picture when I'm listening to music and I get upset. Jordan,
:53:17. > :53:27.does it make you sad to see your Mum upset? Yeah. Josh, please will
:53:27. > :53:33.
:53:33. > :53:43.you go down. OK. Say "excuse me", Josh. Just did. Dad. He leaves,
:53:43. > :54:05.
:54:05. > :54:11.back to his new home, away from I do want him back but he won't
:54:11. > :54:21.come back. Mark's even told him, "Mum misses you and wants you back",
:54:21. > :54:22.
:54:22. > :54:32.haven't you, lad? And what's he say? "No". He says, "I'm not being
:54:32. > :54:41.
:54:41. > :54:47.funny, Mum, I can't come back up OK, guys, let's go! Jordan's in his
:54:47. > :54:51.last year at Fernhurst. He's on a school trip to the Yorkshire Dales.
:54:51. > :54:53.We can do all sorts. We can do walking, mountain-biking. We've not
:54:53. > :55:03.long ago come back from France skiing, kayaking, gorge-walking,
:55:03. > :55:14.
:55:14. > :55:24.The last time we saw pair of dippers was right up at Ingleton
:55:24. > :55:33.
:55:33. > :55:36.Falls, and the situation is very Even though the kids live just an
:55:36. > :55:43.hour from here, if they don't come out with us, they would never even
:55:43. > :55:53.know places like this existed. Bringing them out here actually
:55:53. > :56:10.
:56:10. > :56:14.makes them thrive. It's nice and Why can't I get a job there?
:56:14. > :56:18.Because you're at college. Well, you could do, you could do nights
:56:18. > :56:23.but... Olwen sees no escape for her. Yeah, six till two in the morning.
:56:23. > :56:27.I am stuck here. It's my own fault I'm stuck here. It's not the place
:56:27. > :56:31.I want to live or choose to live but I am here and I'm stuck here,
:56:32. > :56:37.and I've got to make the most of what I've got. Do I look forward to
:56:37. > :56:47.anything? No. Am I happy about anything? No. I just live day to
:56:47. > :56:54.
:56:54. > :57:04.day and that's the upbeat of it. Is it coming off? No, it's too
:57:04. > :57:07.tight. You need a good pair to get it off. At the Morrisons', Ed says
:57:07. > :57:11.he needs to leave. He's says he's got a house away from Shadsworth
:57:11. > :57:15.and is threatening to go on his own. Well, I'm sorted. I've got the
:57:15. > :57:20.house sorted to move but just see how things go with these. The two
:57:20. > :57:25.little ones are all right. It's just Mark the way he is. What's the
:57:25. > :57:30.big boots on for? Take them off. said to them, I said, "Your dad's
:57:30. > :57:40.embarrassed cos of the way you are, to take you to new house". I said,
:57:40. > :57:41.
:57:42. > :57:46."I want to go to this new house and I reckon if I were on my own, if
:57:46. > :57:51.Eddie did leave, I reckon I won't be able to cope with Mark. Others I
:57:51. > :58:00.can handle. It's just Mark I can't control. Mark's the only one I
:58:00. > :58:10.can't control, whereas Edward can.Mark's brother gone. Now his
:58:10. > :58:18.
:58:18. > :58:27.For these families, staying together, paying the bills, wanting
:58:27. > :58:31.more life on the estate is a struggle. Shadsworth is no