Report on 'Centrepoint Soho', a hostel for young homeless in London, continuously frequented by Irish teenage immigrants.
Report shows nighttime London street with fairground and carousel.
Interview with Father Frank Ryan of Conway House Hostel. He points out there is a high price for ill-prepared emigration.
Interview with Ian Brady, Centrepoint, Soho. He explains that in places like Piccadilly and Soho, young people can be open to drugs and prostitution.
To camera, Leo Enright holding report from Centrepoint Soho.
Ian Brady says these young people have no money or changes of clothes.
Young people sleeping on bench. Going into Centrepoint.
Brady states that, of the Centre's thirty two capacity, six or seven are usually Irish teenagers, under nineteen. London, he says, is an alien city and the teenagers don't know where to go, most have not planned their emigration and have not organised contacts or accommodation or jobs, so they often end up on the streets.
Shots of young people in Piccadilly Circus and night lights.
Father Frank Ryan underlines the increase in the number of young people coming to the capital. Worse still, new legislation means that from April, anyone under sixteen or seventeen must go on a course, which bars them from receiving benefits for basic housing and food.
Ian Brady concludes that, over Christmas and New Year, the Centre will be full mostly of children under seventeen.
The reporter is Leo Enright.
