Children's Home run by Shyne Together Limited in Nottinghamshire

Good

The children's home provides effective services that meet the requirements for good.

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The children's home provision is good because:

 The Registered Manager and staff meet the needs of the young people in a planned and unified way.  The staff work together confidently with other agencies to promote positive outcomes for young people.  Young people have made sustained progress as a result of the quality of the care provided.  There are positive and secure relationships between staff and young people.

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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 (England) Regulations 2015 and the Guide to the children's homes regulations including the quality standards. The registered person(s) must comply with the given timescales.

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must recruit staff using recruitment procedures that are designed to ensure children's safety. The requirements are that full and satisfactory information is available in relation to the individual in respect of each of the matters in Schedule 2. In particular that the individual provides documentary evidence of any qualifications which the person considers relevant for the position. (Regulation 32 (3) (d)) 16 th June 2015

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must ensure that within 48 hours of the use of the measure, the registered person, or a person who is authorised by the registered person to do so ("the authorised person") (i) has spoken to the user about the measure; and (ii) has signed the record to confirm it is accurate, (Regulation 35 (3) (b) (i) (ii)) 16 th June 2015

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Information about this children's home

This privately operated home can accommodate up to three young people. The home is registered to provide care to young people who may display emotional and behavioural difficulties and mental disorders, excluding learning disabilities. The home is jointly registered with the Care Quality Commission.

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Recent inspection history

Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

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Recent inspection history

26/08/2014 CH - Interim declined in effectiveness

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good

There are good relationships between staff and young people which is the product of, for example, house meetings and good one to one key work sessions. These meetings also allow the young people to have their views heard. As a result the young people settle in this home when they have not done so before in previous placements; they have sense of belonging. Parents and professionals speak highly of the quality of these relationships. The home has provided some young people with the support of an independent advocate, some have not used this service but it remains available to them, and staff remind them appropriately about it.

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good

Young people have made good progress as a result of the quality of the care provided. As a result incidents of negative behaviour have reduced and there are rewards and incentives for positive behaviour. The home carefully monitors the children’s behaviour, and as a result they are able to identify how to meet individual needs.

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good

For some of the young people education has been difficult to focus on due to their history. Young people receive education within the home, provided by tutors and this means they are more able to engage. As a result the young people are increasing skills and achieving more in line with their expectations. The home has been proactive in pursuing an increase to the limited hours that the young people receive from their local authority education services. The home has promoted the education standard for young people and challenged the local authority providing the service.

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good

Young people have positive contact with friends and families. The staff have welcomed families and friends to visit the home. Recently contact for some young people with their family has increased to overnight stays and weekends. This fosters positive engagement with their own community which helps to meet their individual needs.

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good

Social workers describe practical ways the staff welcome young people to the home when they arrive ‘they went out of their way to help them to settle’. The young person’s guide gives useful information to them as they settle in, as does the guide to making a complaint. There have been no complaints since the previous inspection.

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good

The young people have access to activities in the community such as ice skating and they have enjoy using consoles and computers to play interactive, age appropriate games. Some young people are learning to cook and develop self-help skills in line with their assessed needs.

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good

There is support for young people to help them make and keep appointments with health professionals. This helps to maintain contact with those professionals who are best able to help them to stay healthy. There are healthy home cooked meals provided every day and the young people participate in planning the menu.

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good

The young people feel that they are safe in the home. Staff act appropriately to promote safeguarding. An example was when there were concerns for some young people that they may be at risk in the community, the Registered Manager convened a multi-agency strategy meeting to consider what action was taken. As a result the agencies were better able to understand the issues and reduce the risks accordingly. The staff combine positively with children and other agencies to review and update care plans and risk assessments. As a result incidents of risk taking behaviour for some young people have reduced.

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good

Staff provide a consistently good standard of care. There are positive behaviour management plans, which young people understand. A consequence of this is that behaviour has improved. Suitably updated care plans guide the work with the young people. There are well managed handovers between shifts to ensure continuity and stability for the young people.

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good

There are regular key work sessions with young people, as well as other one to one opportunities to develop positive relationships with staff. The care and support provided to the young people helps to minimise the risk that they will go missing. Staff meet with young people to discuss the how young people can stay safe if they do go missing. Some young people have gone missing and the home has liaised with all appropriate agencies to ensure that the young people are located quickly. An appropriate adult, independent of the home, visits the young people when they return to discuss the reasons why the young person was away from the home.

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good

Some young people have tried to injure themselves in this home. As a result staff are diligent to ensure that those young people do not have access to items which they can use to hurt themselves. This means that room searches are carried out to ensure that young people do not have such items in their room. This helps to keep them safe. Young people are informed routinely when a search has occurred and their views about the search recorded. This is in line with the homes procedures.

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good

The Registered Manager has good links with the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board and understands the role of the Designated Officer and has good contact with them. As a result she is well informed of processes that are to be followed should there be allegations or concerns.

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good

The home is well decorated; the routine maintenance makes it a safe environment for young people to live. The young people’s rooms have a high level of personalisation which helps to raise the young people’s self-esteem.

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good

The Registered Manager is suitably qualified and experienced to manage this home. She holds nursing qualifications and has worked in a number of settings which young people live in. The Registered Manager pays careful attention to keeping the focus of the work on the young people, using internal monitoring and external agencies to keep the needs of young people at the core of the work within the home.

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good

The requirements set at the previous inspection are met. Training for staff to understand and identify the risk of sexual exploitation is completed. The Registered Manager has improved the safer recruiting process for permanent staff, ensuring that references are followed up with telephone calls to verify them. Agency staff are not always equally well checked, in particular to ensure that they have the necessary skills to work with these young people. The Registered Manager minimised this risk by ensuring that the agency member of staff worked alongside more experienced staff.

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good

The Registered Manager works well with the Independent Visitor to monitor and review systems in place to promote young people’s welfare. She has ensured that the care plans and risk assessments are current and updated. This means that staff use up-to-date information to meet the young people’s needs. As a result the environment is positive for the young people to make progress; some young people have reduced incidents of self-harming and are helped to manage their behaviours in a more constructive way. This has led to a reduction of sanctions and an increase in the use of positive rewards. Currently the manager is reviewing the structure of the young people’s files. In the present system it can be difficult for new staff, or staff who may only work occasionally, to locate important information to meet the day to day care needs of the young people. The Registered Manager and the Independent visitor ensure

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good

that the practice of the staff and Statement of Purpose reflects the work in the home.

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good

There are gaps in the records of restraints. This has been on occasion when the Registered Manager has not been on shift, and the omissions relate to obtaining the wishes and feelings of the young people following the restraint. As a result, the staff and manager were not able to look the antecedents, and whether the restraint was required, in a timely way. The impact on the young people was partially minimised by feedback from other professionals who were present and gave their views on the suitability of the restraint.

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good

The Registered Manager is aware of the strengths and weaknesses in the home. For example, when supervision for some staff was completed out of routine, the manager prioritised this and completed a supervision session at the earliest opportunity. There is a training pathway in place which means that suitably skilled adults are meeting the needs of the young people and there is a culture of continuous development.

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What the inspection judgements mean

The experiences and progress of children and young people are at the centre of the inspection. Inspectors will use their professional judgement to determine the weight and significance of their findings in this respect. The judgements included in the report are made against Inspection of children's homes: framework for inspection.

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What the inspection judgements mean

An outstanding children's home provides highly effective services that contribute to significantly improved outcomes for children and young people who need help and protection and care. Their progress exceeds expectations and is sustained over time. A good children's home provides effective services that help, protect and care for children and young people and have their welfare safeguarded and promoted. In a children's home that requires improvement , there are no widespread or serious failures that create or leave children being harmed or at risk of harm. The welfare of looked after children is safeguarded and promoted. Minimum requirements are in place, however, the children's home is not yet delivering good protection, help and care for children and young people. A children's home that is inadequate is providing services where there are widespread or serious failures that create or leave children and young people being

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What the inspection judgements mean

harmed or at risk of harm or result in children looked after not having their welfare safeguarded and promoted.

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Information about this inspection

Inspectors have looked closely at the experiences and progress of children and young people living in the children's home. Inspectors considered the quality of work and the difference adults make to the lives of children and young people. They read case files, watched how professional staff work with children, young people and each other and discussed the effectiveness of help and care given to children and young people. Wherever possible, they talked to children, young people and their families. In addition the inspectors have tried to understand what the children's home knows about how well it is performing, how well it is doing and what difference it is making for the children and young people who it is trying to help, protect and look after. This 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 Children's

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Information about this inspection

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