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APPENDIX III
Mr Y
[This case study has been anonymised to protect our client’s identity and
confidentiality]
Mr Y had attended Kids Company’s Urban Academy facility (a post-sixteen education
centre located in Bermondsey). He had successfully obtained a job and moved forward
from our services and our project. He was described as a friendly, funny young man with
great potential.
One afternoon Mr Y was seen by staff on the opposite side of the road to our centre and
they went to greet him. He was pacing erratically up and down the pavement. Mr Y was
clutching at his clothing and flesh “to pull the feathers off”. The staff contacted one of the
safeguarding team high risk outreach workers who came and spoke to Mr Y. By the time
the worker had arrived Mr Y had contacted his cousin who came to collect him. The
worker had a discussion with the cousin, and Mr Y, the cousin and the Kids Company
worker attended a hospital accident and emergency department. On the way to the
department Mr Y wet himself whilst walking along.
Mr Y was seen and was treated as an outpatient and given follow up appointments,
which he struggled to attend even with support. Following an incident Kids Company
were not involved in, Mr Y was eventually sectioned. He remained under section for
many months moving between wards, and his mental state did not seem to improve
despite medication. He had a confused thought process, was incapable of holding a
conversation with any logical flow, and would at times telephone staff members up to
thirty times in an hour and all day from the hospital. Mr Y was eventually allowed on day
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