Escape from approved children home

(1) A child who runs away from an approved children home to which he has been committed or from a person in whose care he has been placed on emergency or committed by the court on a care order may, pending investigation, (a) be brought back to the approved children home or to the person from which or from whom he has run away; or (b) be put in an alternative approved home or (2) As soon as possible, the child shall be interviewed by the social services practitioner or an authorised person who shall also interview the person in charge of the home or the person in whose care the child had been placed. (3) The child may then be returned to where he had been placed or, if that is not in the child’s best interests, he may be moved by the social services practitioner under a care order or otherwise returned to court for variation or discharge of the