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The greatest pain

Kerryanne Wright, 40, Rotherham

Knocking on my daughter’s bedroom door, I listened to hear what she was doing.

‘The support worker is here,’ I told her softly.

Paige, then 16, opened the door, sulking.

‘I’m not going to college!’ she fumed, slamming the door again.

We’d recently moved to a new area, and Paige was furious.

I could see why. We’d had a chaotic few years, circumstances forcing us to move from town to town. By October 2017, Paige was at the end of her tether.

She’d had to leave her old school, her friends, pack

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