'It was the only way I could get food': why this homeless boy turned up to school

By Henrietta Cook, Education Editor
Updated April 24 2018 - 9:04pm, first published March 16 2017 - 4:38pm

At the start of Year 11, Shawn Carter came home to an empty house.

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