Children's Home run by Bryn Melyn Care Limited in Shropshire

Unique reference number SC411142 Inspector Hannah Bates Type of inspection Interim Provision subtype Children's home

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Registered person Bryn Melyn Care Limited Registered person address 2 High Street Dawley Telford Shropshire TF4 2ET

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Responsible individual Melissa Johnson Registered manager Jonathan David Lokier Date of last inspection 22/10/2014 2 of 5 Inspection date 12/02/2015

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Previous inspection good Enforcement action since last inspection none

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This inspection

This home was judged good at the last full inspection. At this interim inspection Ofsted judge that it has declined in effectiveness .

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This inspection

The home has not sustained practices that ensure young people stay safe. Staff do not follow risk management protocols and staff practice has left young people unsafe. The home has not ensured that there have been consistent staffing levels to reflect the risk management protocols. Consequently, staff interventions have become ineffective and young people have placed themselves in dangerous situations. Young people’s risk taking behaviours impede on their educational attendance and achievement. This has detrimentally impacted on young people’s emotional and physical well-being.

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This inspection

Young people are no longer making good progress. Young people’s risk taking behaviours have increased significantly. Staff do not provide consistent responses to support young people’s emotional needs. Staff do not always debrief young people after significant risk taking incidents. Key working sessions are unplanned and do not help young people find strategies to reduce their risk taking behaviours. Young people say they feel that the home has not emotionally supported them. In-house therapeutic support has been inconsistent. In turn, young people’s emotional well- being has become compromised.

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This inspection

Management oversight and decision making within the home has declined. The Registered Manager has failed in his duty to notify HMCI of significant events. Decisions regarding staffing have been ill thought out and not risk assessed. This has left young people and staff in vulnerable situations. The Registered Manager has not ensured that young people are receiving the specialist services they need. For example, external providers have not been challenged about significant delays in providing much needed assessments and interventions. The provision does not embed multi-agency working. Young people do not receive consistent and robust multi-agency risk management interventions. Consequently, young people’s complex emotional needs are unmet. 3 of 5 The last full inspection took place in October 2014. Two requirements and four recommendations were made at this inspection. These have been met.

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This inspection

This inspection has raised three requirements. 4 of 5

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Information about this children’s home

This is a small private children's home for one young person, who may have emotional and/or behavioural difficulties.

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

22/10/2014 Full good 20/02/2014 Interim good progress 15/05/2013 Full adequate 10/01/2013 Interim satisfactory progress

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Statutory Requirements

This section sets out the actions which must be taken so that the registered person/s meets the Care Standards Act 2000, Children's Homes Regulations 2001 and the National Minimum Standards. The registered person(s) must comply with the given timescales.

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Reg. Requirement Due date

(2001) ensure that the children’s home is conducted so as to promote and make proper provision for the safeguarding and welfare of children accommodated there (Regulation 11 (1) (a)) 27/03/2015

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Reg. Requirement Due date

(2001) prepare and implement written a policy which is intended to safeguard children accommodated in the children’s home from abuse or neglect (Regulation 16 (1) (a)) 27/03/2015

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Reg. Requirement Due date

(2001) If any of the events listed in column 1 of the table in Schedule 5 takes place, the registered person shall without delay notify the persons indicated in respect of the event in column 2 of the table. (Regulation 30(1)) 27/03/2015 Website: www.ofsted.gov.uk

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Reg. Requirement Due date

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What inspection judgements mean

At the interim inspections we make a judgement on whether the home has improved in effectiveness, sustained effectiveness, or declined in effectiveness since the previous full inspection. This is in line with the Inspection of children’s homes: framework for inspection.

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Information 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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Information about this inspection

The report details the main strengths, any areas for improvement, including any breaches of regulation, and any failure to meet national minimum standards. The judgements included in the report are made against the framework of inspection for children's homes.

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