“This Debt Awareness Week, we want to start an open and honest conversation about debt. We want people to know that it’s nothing to be ashamed of. It doesn’t define you, and, most importantly, support is available.”
For Bethan, it was difficult to admit to herself that she was facing debt. “I didn’t want to admit that I’d got myself into this position,” she says.
“But you have to realise that it’s not just yourself. You have got to think of the wider picture of how things are financially in society and how everybody is struggling today.”
After that initial period of homelessness, Bethan found a job and the family were able to move into private rented property. She then went back to university to…