Children's Home run by The Partnership of Care Today in Leeds

Unique reference number SC437645 Inspection date 22/01/2013 Inspector Russell Shackford Type of inspection Interim Provision subtype Children's home

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Date of last inspection 11/06/2012 Website: www.ofsted.gov.uk

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Brief description of the service

This children's home is owned and managed by a private company. It is registered to provide care and accommodation for no more than four young people who have emotional and/or behavioural difficulties.

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The inspection judgements and what they mean

Good progress The children’s home has demonstrated continued improvement in quality of care and outcomes for children and young people and where appropriate has addressed all requirements and the large majority of recommendations that were raised at the previous inspection. Satisfactory progress The children’s home has maintained quality of care and outcomes for children and young people and where appropriate has addressed all requirements and the majority of recommendations that were raised at the previous inspection. Inadequate progress The children’s home has failed to address one or more requirements and/or has not met the majority of recommendations and/or the quality of care and outcomes for children and young people have declined since the last full inspection.

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Progress

Since their previous inspection the service is judged to be making satisfactory progress .

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Progress

This home was judged as adequate at the full inspection and is judged to have made satisfactory progress at this interim inspection. The home has maintained the quality of care and outcomes for children and has addressed the requirements and the recommendation made at the previous inspection. These were about fire safety, staffing levels, behaviour management records, care planning, and the monitoring of the quality of care at the home.

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Progress

The content and quality of written placement plans have been improved to clearly outline how young people's needs will be met. This helps to ensure that existing, new and occasional workers can provide agreed ways of individualised care and support to young people.

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Progress

Records relating to behaviour management are better because staff usually record all of the required information including the effectiveness and any consequences of a disciplinary measure imposed. However, there remain a very small number of entries that are not fully recorded. By consistently recording these matters helps the staff and manager to monitor the records effectively and adapt behaviour management strategies according to the findings.

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Progress

The practice of wedging open doors designed to contain fire has ceased. This helps to ensure that people in the home are fully protected in the event of a fire.

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Progress

Staffing levels are consistently sufficient to meet the number and needs of young people at the home.

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Progress

There is satisfactory monitoring of the quality of care for the young people in the home. A consistent person undertakes the external quality assurance monitoring visit. This includes consultation with children, parents and other agency staff. The manager monitors and reports upon the administration systems of the home, ensuring what staff record they record well. These, and other findings around the quality of care at the home, are not always recorded in sufficient detail or adequately evaluated to fully inform the service development.

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Recommendations

To improve the quality and standards of care further the service should take account of the following recommendation(s):

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Recommendations

 ensure that there are clear and effective procedures for monitoring and controlling the activities of the home (NMS 21.1)  ensure that staff are able to review incidents of challenging behaviour, examine trends or issues emerging from this, to enable them to reflect and learn to inform future practice. In particular by consistently recording the effectiveness and any consequences of any measure of discipline imposed. (NMS 3.21)

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About this inspection

The purpose of this inspection is to assure children and young people, parents, the public, local authorities and government of the quality and standard of the service provided. The inspection was carried out under the Care Standards Act 2000 to assess the effectiveness of the service and to consider how well it complies with the relevant regulations and meets the national minimum standards.

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About this inspection

The report details the progress made by the provider since the last full inspection, identifies any further strengths, any areas for improvement and makes judgements as outlined in the Inspection of children’s homes – framework for inspection.

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