Purpose of approved children homes

(1) An approved children home shall provide substitute family care for a child until such time as the parents of the child are able to provide adequate care to meet his basic needs or the child can be reunited with its family or arrangements made for its custody or other permanent placement. (2) It shall be the responsibility of the staff of the approved children home, the social services practitioner and any other person to assist the child to become reunited with his parents (3) After a child has been returned home from an approved children home, the probation and social services practitioner shall keep in regular contact with the child and his family until the completion of the order or its discharge. (4) Where a child is unable to return to his or her parents or to go to foster parents or has no parent, nor a foster parent, he shall, where possible, be encouraged and assisted by the approved children home and the social services practitioner until placement can be arranged for the child.