Season 2 - Episode Guide

The critically acclaimed docusoap returns to the "buy-back" stores, pawn shops and streets of Birmingham and Bristol. Indomitable Big Issue seller Vernon Burgess is homeless again, so he's off to seek refuge with the Salvation Army.

A Big Issue seller wants a change of career, while a couple are deep in debt and facing a court summons for assault. Meanwhile, Tara [text removed] has changed dramatically since the last series: she has taken her children away from Birmingham and their alcoholic father.

Christmas is coming and Vernon is skint. Will busking help? Heroin addict Gaz wants to spend his first Christmas in years out of prison with his mum, and Nick has a gambling addiction that even his pawn shop connection finds unsettling.

The stress of debt is taking its toll on Tony, while Nick gets lucky when a woman gives him two free televisions that he can flog to the pawn shop.

Tony is on his own after being assaulted by his girlfriend, but manages to find a job for the first time in 11 years.

The two previous series of Skint introduced viewers to Vernon Burgess. Having spent time in prison and psychiatric care, Vernon ended up homeless and skint.

For the debt season, the film crew again visits Vernon. He is selling the Big Issue to supplement his benefits, but this will not clear his increasing debts. An old credit card purchase of his son's bike has caught up with him, and with added interest, it is over a thousand pounds. He also owes the Benefits Office a few thousand in overpaid allowances, and has not paid his water bill for a year.

A visit to Birmingham City Council debt counselling service helps, but Vernon has his own plan. He becomes an apprentice bathroom fitter, with plans of starting a business. However, he is still set in his old ways, so things do not go quite to plan.

The BBC's Hard Christmas campaign continues with an update on the story of Vernon Burgess , the Big Issue seller who spent last Christmas in a psychiatric unit. This year he's determined to busk his way out of trouble. All he needs is a guitar, and some lessons ...

Lovable Big Issue seller Vernon features in a one-off special for the No Home season. Our hero has set up his own company and is planning a record. Meanwhile, Gaz's heroin addiction is under control but there are shocks in store.