Interviews with children who run away from home are to be brought back under council control after a review found issues involving the troubled Greater Manchester Police IT system iOPS.
Tameside’s children’s services department is to take over the legal duty to interview children who go missing from home or care from charity partner Barnardo’s, which currently delivers the service.
By law interviews must, in most cases, be completed within 72 hours of a child returning home and be carried out by an independent person.
