During the winter we had a call for one of our customers. She was concerned that someone had moved into her garden shed. As it was the winter she didn't go into the garden as significantly as in the summer months. One weekend she decided to clear up all of the fallen apples and pears from the trees. Even though 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 thought that maybe her teenage son and his friends had had a sleepover within 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 next thing that happened was a little fire had been created 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 referred to as us.
We decided to put up a covert camera pointing at 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 producing a fire. He sat huddled up by the fire all night. Our client had in no way noticed him just before 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 aid 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 along with other gardens inside the neighbourhood. The social worker told him she could put him into care for the night and sort out his circumstance inside the morning. He is now with foster parents and performing nicely at school.
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