For the duration of 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 a lot as within the summer months. One weekend she decided to clear up all the fallen apples and pears from the trees. Although she was on the market she went into the shed and she discovered some blankets and some takeaway food containers. She thought this was fairly strange but believed that maybe her teenage son and his pals had had a sleepover inside 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 little fire had been made inside the entrance towards 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. Soon 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 in no way seen him prior to 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 support the young man.
He was fairly polite but looked exhausted. He had run away from his property and had been sleeping rough in our client’s garden as well as other gardens in 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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