(1)An approved 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 or her basic needs or the child completes three years in the home or attains the age of eighteen years, whichever is earlier.

(2)It shall be the responsibility of the staff of the approved home, the probation and social welfare officer and any other person to assist the child to become reunited with his or her parents or guardians.

(3)After a child has been returned home from an approved home, the probation and social welfare officer shall keep in regular contact with the child and his or her 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, the child shall be encouraged and assisted by the approved home and the probation and social welfare officer to become independent and self-reliant.