Ginny Dixon, 16, had never lived on her own before a two-week stay in Bournemouth Council's training flat for young people in care.
"The first night was horrible," she says. "I kept having nightmares."
But Ginny, who was previously in foster care, soon settled into the one-bedroom flat on a local council estate and began enjoying the freedom of having her own place.
"I liked having my friends round and the fact I could do what I wanted," she says.
The flat is designed to give looked-after young people a taste of independent living and was set up as part of the authority's Right2BCared4 pilot in 2008.
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