At the docs

We have a monitor that plays social and medical clips at my doc's to watch while waiting to see someone. The last couple of times I've been there there's been a clip about homeless youngsters and an organisation which can offer a bed for the night if they have one. Can't remember which part of the country it's based in.

I didn't quite understand why, if this organisation can offer these kids somewhere to stay .. well, if they've got enough beds to offer, why the government can't. Surely there must be people for these people to turn to .. if they've run away from home. Or, is it, that the kids don't have any trust in the social services if they've found themselves in a position where they've felt that they need to run away from home. If they've been brought up in care surely there must be somewhere they can turn to if they need help. I just hoped that there would be more things in place to help these days and a kid with nowhere they felt they could turn to was a situation from back in the past.