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Children's home · Social care

Children's home run by Duty of Care Limited in County Durham

URN SC476602 · County DurhamOfsted does not publish the names of children's homes.

Inspection history (18)

  1. 18 Feb 2026

    Children's home inspection (SCCIF)

    Good
    Helped and protectedGood
    Leadership and managementRI to be good

    Miriam Dolman

  2. 20 Jan 2026

    Social care monitoring visit

    Gary Smithson

  3. 16 Dec 2025

    Social care monitoring visit

    Miriam Dolman (lead), Gary Smithson

  4. 30 Oct 2025

    Children's home inspection (SCCIF)

    Inadequate
    Helped and protectedInadequate
    Leadership and managementInadequate

    Laura Roberts (lead), Sarah Adotey

  5. 13 Nov 2024

    Children's home inspection (SCCIF)

    Good
    Helped and protectedGood
    Leadership and managementRI to be good

    Miriam Dolman

  6. 21 Sept 2023

    Children's home inspection (SCCIF)

    Good
    Helped and protectedGood
    Leadership and managementGood

    Miriam Dolman (lead), Cat Makel

  7. 16 Aug 2022

    Children's home inspection (SCCIF)

    Good
    Helped and protectedGood
    Leadership and managementRI to be good

    Paula Shepherd

  8. 21 Dec 2021

    Children's home inspection (SCCIF)

    Paula Shepherd

  9. 17 Aug 2021

    Children's home inspection (SCCIF)

    RI to be good
    Helped and protectedRI to be good
    Leadership and managementRI to be good

    Paula Shepherd

  10. 1 Dec 2020

    Social care monitoring visit

    Catherine Heron

  11. 17 Oct 2019

    Children's home inspection (SCCIF)

    Good
    Helped and protectedGood
    Leadership and managementGood
  12. 16 Oct 2019

    Social care assurance visit

    Catherine Heron

  13. 5 Sept 2019

    Social care monitoring visit

  14. 12 Jul 2019

    Children's home inspection (SCCIF)

    Inadequate
    Helped and protectedInadequate
    Leadership and managementRI to be good
  15. 13 Feb 2019

    Children's home inspection (SCCIF)

    Outstanding
    Helped and protectedOutstanding
    Leadership and managementOutstanding
  16. 14 Mar 2018

    Children's home inspection (SCCIF)

    Good
    Helped and protectedOutstanding
    Leadership and managementOutstanding
  17. 16 Mar 2017

    Social care interim inspection

    Colin Imrie

  18. 3 May 2016

    Children's home inspection (SCCIF)

    Good
    Helped and protectedGood

    Colin Imrie

Care provider

Duty of Care Limited

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Details

URN
SC476602
Type
Children's home
Local authority
County Durham
Region
North East
Address
DL2 3LZ
Reports on record
18
Earliest report
3 May 2016

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