Return Home Interviews
Return Home Interview
As part of this service, we provide you with a ‘Return Home Interview Request Form’. For us to complete an Independent Return Home Interview with a young person who has recently been missing, you will need to complete this form and share it with us at the time of their return.
The request form provides us with more information about the young person and their missing episode. Once we have received this form, we will confirm a date and time for the interview to be completed. We will spend time with the young person, building up a positive rapport and exploring their missing episode with them. We understand that some young people will not want to talk to us. When this happens, we will remain in the home for the duration of the visit and take efforts to follow up with a phone call to the young person. Following the visit, we will provide an ‘Independent Return Home Interview Report’, which may include recommendations in relation to preventing the young person going missing again in the future.Contact us on: returnhomes@stepswithchildren.org
What's Included
- Our visits to the young person will last up to 90 minutes
- Our final report will be shared with the home and the social worker
- We will liaise with your local MASH/LCSP if we have any safeguarding concerns (any immediate concerns will be shared with the home at the time of the visit)
