During the winter we had a call for 1 of our clients. She was concerned that a person had moved into her garden shed. As it was the winter she didn't 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. Although she was available she went into the shed and she located some blankets and some takeaway food containers. She thought this was very strange but thought that maybe her teenage son and his buddies 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 next factor that happened was a tiny fire had been produced 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 in 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 prior to 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 help 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 within the morning. He is now with foster parents and doing properly at school.