Foster child: I wasn't emotionally ready to leave home at 18

I had to move out at 18 because I was classed as an adult living in a children's home, says Jemma Vanderstock.

Jemma told 5 live she was not "mentally and emotionally ready" to leave her residential care home and live alone.

She said nobody told her about the government's 'staying put' scheme which could have given her more time to mature.

Since 2014, councils have been obliged to fund teenagers to stay with their foster parents until the age of 21 if they want to. There has been a warning from councils and care homes though, who say the government's 'staying put' scheme is being under funded.

Foster parent Helen Rowden chose to take advantage of the scheme with her foster child Vicky Carruthers, something they would not have been able to do had funding not been in place.

She said young people who do not get the option to stay at home past 18 have been set up to "fail."

This clip is originally from 5 live Breakfast on Saturday 22 August 2015.