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When people no longer care

A loving home is far from reality for youngsters failed by the system, finds David Leask.

MIKE knows all about leaving home. He has done it every year since he was three. From the day he was taken into care as a toddler to the day he left as a 16-year-old, Mike was in 19 different "homes".