In the course of the winter we had a call for one of our clients. She was concerned that an individual had moved into her garden shed. As it was the winter she did not go into the garden as considerably as inside the summer months. 1 weekend she decided to clear up all the fallen apples and pears from the trees. Whilst she was on the market she went into the shed and she located some blankets and some takeaway food containers. She believed this was very strange but thought that maybe her teenage son and his friends had had a sleepover within 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 happened was a modest fire had been made within the entrance to the shed and there had been a lot more blankets and rubbish. She named the Police and they suggested she would get a quicker response if she known as us.
We decided to put up a covert camera pointing at the shed to obtain to the bottom of it. Following a couple of days the tapes showed a filthy young man going into the shed and generating a fire. He sat huddled up by the fire all night. Our client had in no way noticed him 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 really polite but looked exhausted. He had run away from his residence and had been sleeping rough in our client’s garden and other gardens within the neighbourhood. The social worker told him she could put him into care for the night and sort out his scenario in the morning. He is now with foster parents and performing nicely at school.