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Looking out for my food shop delivery one afternoon in 2015, I poked my head through the curtains.

Instead of the supermarket van, I saw an unfamiliar car outside.

Who's that? I thought, as a man climbed out and walked down our path.

Confused, I opened the door as he knocked.

‘I'm from social services,' he said.

Frowning, I thought of my son Toby, then 13, at school.

Sure, he'd been a bit of a tearaway recently – getting in trouble in class, vaping, sometimes disappearing with friends.

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