# In, Out, Shake it all about [a sad story]
This is quite a sad story but it made me chuckle.
Today I had to attend the first case conference for a 15 year old kid who came to our attention because we thought he was selling his arse.
He came to our notice about a year ago because he was hanging around with the Evening Standard sellers around king's Cross, St Pancras And KX Thameslink stations. Although prostitution does still go on around there it's not as bad as it was, say, four or five years ago.
Anyway, this kid had come to our attention. He hit the big time, so to speak, when one of our guys saw him doing what he thought was "attempting to attract attention of others [males] for the purposes of soliciting himself for the further purposes of prostitution".
This "information" was passed onto the Op Merlin team who passed it onto the local authority. So, after four weeks, wheels have ground etc, etc and the first case conference happened today.
Well, knowing what I know now.....
Mick [not, of course, his real name] has Asperger's Syndrome [read the in's & out's of it, it will take far to long to explain here], is being bullied in school, doesn't make friends easily, finds it easier to interact with those who are older than himself, doesn't necessarily see that things / situations are dangerous or wrong.
So, the case conference had myself, a social worker to whom the case had been assigned, an Out-reach Worker from Bernardo's, and his head of year from his school plus and impartial chairman. The school rep and us were the ones with all of the info so we lead the show.
His head of year form school must have been plucked straight from the 1950's. Nice woman but, fuckin' hell, not with the program.
Having established that, no, he doesn't suddenly arrive at school with loads of unaccountable money / material goods, he doesn't seem to have any interest in drugs / cigarettes / drink etc, we came to the question of sex.
"Do you think he is sexual active / "aware""? asked the guy from Bernado's.
"Well, he's like all boys of that age..... he jiggles about...." and she did the sort of thing that guys do when they're "shuffling the dominoes" [rummaging around with their balls].
I didn't laugh but it took some stifling.
What more can you say! There is more to the story but it's nor worth persuing at the moment. I'll keep you updated.
Today I had to attend the first case conference for a 15 year old kid who came to our attention because we thought he was selling his arse.
He came to our notice about a year ago because he was hanging around with the Evening Standard sellers around king's Cross, St Pancras And KX Thameslink stations. Although prostitution does still go on around there it's not as bad as it was, say, four or five years ago.
Anyway, this kid had come to our attention. He hit the big time, so to speak, when one of our guys saw him doing what he thought was "attempting to attract attention of others [males] for the purposes of soliciting himself for the further purposes of prostitution".
This "information" was passed onto the Op Merlin team who passed it onto the local authority. So, after four weeks, wheels have ground etc, etc and the first case conference happened today.
Well, knowing what I know now.....
Mick [not, of course, his real name] has Asperger's Syndrome [read the in's & out's of it, it will take far to long to explain here], is being bullied in school, doesn't make friends easily, finds it easier to interact with those who are older than himself, doesn't necessarily see that things / situations are dangerous or wrong.
So, the case conference had myself, a social worker to whom the case had been assigned, an Out-reach Worker from Bernardo's, and his head of year from his school plus and impartial chairman. The school rep and us were the ones with all of the info so we lead the show.
His head of year form school must have been plucked straight from the 1950's. Nice woman but, fuckin' hell, not with the program.
Having established that, no, he doesn't suddenly arrive at school with loads of unaccountable money / material goods, he doesn't seem to have any interest in drugs / cigarettes / drink etc, we came to the question of sex.
"Do you think he is sexual active / "aware""? asked the guy from Bernado's.
"Well, he's like all boys of that age..... he jiggles about...." and she did the sort of thing that guys do when they're "shuffling the dominoes" [rummaging around with their balls].
I didn't laugh but it took some stifling.
What more can you say! There is more to the story but it's nor worth persuing at the moment. I'll keep you updated.
posted by liits at 3:15 AM
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