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Film-maker Peter Barber-Fleming grew up near a home for 'bad boys', yet knew little of what happened within its forbidding walls. Determined to learn about the reality of life at Ballikinrain, he returned to make a documentary and tell their story ...

IN rural Stirlingshire where I grew up, the local "bad boys' homes" were the subject of perennial rumour, gossip and threat: if we didn't behave, we might be sent away to one of these institutions.