At Risk: An innocent boy. A sinister secret. Is there no one to save him from danger?. Casey Watson

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      It was the work of moments to establish that Adam had not the least interest in football. Never played it – except sometimes, at school, when he was made to – and had no allegiance to any team. He seemed more interested in Spencer and the whys and wherefores of his stay with us.

      ‘Do you have lots of boys come to stay here?’ he asked, once I’d sketched a few details for him.

      ‘I do,’ I said, ‘and girls. Some for short stays, like you, and some, like my Tyler, who stay with us for a long time.’

      ‘Why?’ he asked. Which seemed a reasonable enough question.

      ‘Because not everyone is lucky enough to have a mum who loves them like yours does,’ I told him. ‘And sometimes, because some mums and dads, for all sorts of reasons, can’t look after their children themselves.’

      ‘So is this in care? Me being here?’ He looked suddenly anxious.

      ‘Yes, officially, I suppose,’ I said. ‘But not the way you might have heard of it. I’m simply taking care of you till your mum’s better and she can look after you again herself.’

      ‘Does she know about you?’ he asked me, as we climbed the stairs to go rummage in my clothes cupboard. ‘You know – that you’re a proper carer person and I’m safe and that?’

      ‘Of course.’

      ‘That’s good,’ he said. ‘She won’t worry so much about me then, will she?’

      By then the all-important business of choosing swim shorts was underway, or perhaps I would have pondered that a little more fully.

      We spent a lovely morning swimming, and despite my earlier assumption, Adam turned out not to be the athlete I had suspected. In fact, he struggled in the water. It was clear he loved it, however, and was keen to improve, not to mention revelling in the opportunity to go a little wild and splash and scream down the water slides – the ones at the shallow end, normally enjoyed by kids half his age.

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