The last week or so I’ve managed to catch quite a few Jeremy Kyle Shows, for those of you who don’t know what it is it’s a chat show hosted by Jeremy Kyle that covers all sorts of issues from cheating partners, troublesome teenagers right up to people not knowing who their parents are. It gives chances for DNA tests and provides after show councilling and follows up the people who’ve been on the show.

I’ve been finding the ones with teenagers in particually interesting from a Youth Work perspective, also, as I sit here typing I’m watching a special one on ITV2 where Jeremy moves into a poor neighbourhood for 3 days and has to live on the amount someone with benefits would, it’s quite interesting and also scary to see the traps some people get in, whereby of they worked anymore than they currently do they’d lose their benefits and be worse off, these people live in a vicious circle which is something working with the Princes Trust teams is something else I’ve realised.

I recommend the Jeremy Kyle show, it’s usually on around half 9 on ITV1