During the winter we had a call for one of our clients. She was concerned that a person had moved into her garden shed. As it was the winter she didn't go into the garden as much as within 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 found some blankets and some takeaway food containers. She believed this was fairly strange but believed that possibly her teenage son and his friends had had a sleepover inside the shed.
She quizzed her son and he stated that they wouldn’t sleep in there as the roof leaked and there was no electricity. The subsequent thing that occurred was a modest fire had been produced in the entrance to the shed and there were more blankets and rubbish. She named the Police and they suggested she would get a quicker response if she called us.
We decided to put up a covert camera pointing in the shed to get to the bottom of it. Following a couple of days the tapes showed a filthy young man going into the shed and making a fire. He sat huddled up by the fire all night. Our client had never observed him prior to and as he seemed so young she wanted to assist him. The subsequent night a social worker and our client went out into the garden to see if they could help the young man.
He was quite polite but looked exhausted. He had run away from his property and had been sleeping rough in our client’s garden along with other gardens within the neighbourhood. The social worker told him she could put him into care for the night and sort out his circumstance within the morning. He is now with foster parents and performing nicely at school.
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