My mother moved us into her new boyfriends home when I was 14 - he threw us out when I was 16, just changed the locks when we were out.

Mother and my brother went to a hostel for the homeless but I was too old at 16 - luckily i had started a nursing cadet course, so I had a word with the home warden and although you should be at least 18 to live in, they allowed me to.

So at 16 I was paying rent in the nurses home, and looking after myself with everything, food, clothes etc. There was no help from the home wardens at all - I managed though