Can i leave home with parent permission?

[sweetpea31]

I'm 16, i'll ve 17 in september. I want to know if i can leave home now, before i turn 17, with parental permission. I have a job with steady income, a truck, and a place where i can live. Can i move out now?

[Lil O'lady]

Do a google search - Somerset Connexions have an excellent advice page.

[Bewlay Bros]

Are you american???????????

In UK you do not need "permission" to leave home at 16 and can not drive a big lorry (truck) til 21. Smaller vans at 17.

[Lil O'lady]

Ayup Bewley - a 16 - 18 yr old can be reported missing in England by their parents and it would take a confident and resourceful young person to turn a visiting PC away.

[banjosister]

BB,

I think she means pick up when she says truck.

BB xx

[Bewlay Bros]

Any age of person can be reported missing if the circumstances are such that warrant a missing persons report.

At 16 you can marry (in certain circumstances) win 40 million on the lottery and have loads of children.

I can assure you can leave home quite legally.

[sense4all]

http://www.kitzone.org.uk/rights16.html

[joannie10]

I take it you were not planning on just disappearing though were you? That would worry your parents and yes I am sure they would go to the police. You are allowed to leave home though in the UK at the age of 16. You are too young though to hold a driving license to drive your truck.