For the duration of the winter we had a call for one 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 significantly as inside the summer months. 1 weekend she decided to clear up all the fallen apples and pears from the trees. Even though she was out there she went into the shed and she identified some blankets and some takeaway food containers. She believed this was really strange but thought that maybe her teenage son and his pals 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 factor that occurred was a tiny fire had been created within the entrance towards the shed and there had been more blankets and rubbish. She referred to as the Police and they suggested she would get a quicker response if she referred to as us.
We decided to put up a covert camera pointing in the shed to obtain towards the bottom of it. Following 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 in no way seen 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 aid the young man.
He was fairly polite but looked exhausted. He had run away from his house 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 circumstance in the morning. He is now with foster parents and doing properly at school.