Growing numbers of teens in Melbourne's outer suburbs working to help support their families
ABCIt was just a week before her 18th birthday when Yvone applied for a job at a local fast-food restaurant. Abbi Chamberlain, a school counsellor at The Grange P-12 College in Tarneit, said students often arrived at class exhausted after working late the night before, often missing the beginning of lessons. “She said that she's been listening and watching her mum, who's a single mother and worried about becoming homeless," Ms Newnham said. "What’s also changed is that the unemployment rate is lower, so the teenagers who want a job right now are more likely to have one,” Ms Timbrell said. Yvone's first day of work The 167 bus weaved through residential streets for 20 minutes, clipping narrow roundabouts and stopping to pick up other teenagers and mums with young children.
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