In the course of the winter we had a call for 1 of our clients. She was concerned that somebody had moved into her garden shed. As it was the winter she didn't go into the garden as much as in the summer months. 1 weekend she decided to clear up all the fallen apples and pears from the trees. Although she was available she went into the shed and she discovered some blankets and some takeaway food containers. She believed this was really strange but believed that perhaps her teenage son and his buddies had had a sleepover in the shed.
She quizzed her son and he said that they wouldn’t sleep in there as the roof leaked and there was no electricity. The subsequent thing that happened was a tiny fire had been created within the entrance to the shed and there had been more blankets and rubbish. She called the Police and they suggested she would get a quicker response if she known as us.
We decided to put up a covert camera pointing at the shed to get towards the bottom of it. After a couple of days the tapes showed a filthy young man going into the shed and producing a fire. He sat huddled up by the fire all night. Our client had never ever noticed him just before and as he seemed so young she wanted to help him. The subsequent night a social worker and our client went out into the garden to see if they could support the young man.
He was very polite but looked exhausted. He had run away from his house and had been sleeping rough in our client’s garden and other gardens within the neighbourhood. The social worker told him she could put him into care for the night and sort out his situation inside the morning. He is now with foster parents and doing nicely at school.
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