During the winter we had a call for one of our clients. She was concerned that someone had moved into her garden shed. As it was the winter she did not go into the garden as much as in the summer months. One weekend she decided to clear up all the fallen apples and pears from the trees. While she was out there she went into the shed and she found some blankets and some takeaway food containers. She thought this was quite strange but thought that perhaps her teenage son and his friends 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 next thing that happened was a small fire had been made in the entrance to the shed and there were more blankets and rubbish. She called the Police and they suggested she would get a quicker response if she called us.
We decided to put up a covert camera pointing at the shed to get to the bottom of it. After 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 seen him before and as he seemed so young she wanted to help him. The next 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 home and had been sleeping rough in our client’s garden and other gardens in the neighbourhood. The social worker told him she could put him into care for the night and sort out his situation in the morning. He is now with foster parents and doing well at school.
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