Children's Home run by Oakley House Children’s Home Limited in Staffordshire

This monitoring visit

This home was judged inadequate at a full inspection on 30 June 2015. This monitoring visit assessed the initial progress the home was making to address the specific concerns over insufficient staffing at the home.

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This monitoring visit

Young people are not yet receiving consistent, stable, or secure relationships with a core staff team. This is a consequence of ongoing reliance of agency workers to supplement shortages in staff numbers on various shifts.

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This monitoring visit

Leaders and managers have increased their visibility and accessibility to help manage this period. There is commitment from the managers and leaders to aim to ensure young people have access to a core staff team and reduce the disruption that comes from having temporary staff. They have recruited two new senior care staff, both starting this month. This is beginning increase the core staff team to give young people some improved continuity of care. However, despite this recruitment, there are still vacancies for permanent staff.

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This monitoring visit

The rota fails to fully reflect the actual staffing on each hour of every shift. It does not show the large number of changes caused by short staffing and staff absence. The failure to maintain an accurate rota means it is not possible to establish the full details of those staff working directly with young people, or their competence.

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This monitoring visit

The leaders and managers have shared their plans to improve the home’s staffing, with placing authorities and Ofsted. This enables all stakeholders to stay informed about progress to secure the right staffing levels to meet the needs of young people.

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Information about this children's home

This is a children's home for up to 3 young people, aged between 10 and 17 years, with emotional and/or behavioural difficulties and learning disabilities. The home is operated by a private company.

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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 maintain in the home the records in schedule 4; in particular ensure a copy of the staff duty roster of persons working at the home, and a record of the actual rosters worked. 07/08/2015

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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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Information about this inspection

The purpose of this visit was to monitor the action taken and the progress made by the home since their last Ofsted inspection. This inspection was carried out under the Care Standards Act 2000. the guidance raising concerns and making complaints about Ofsted, which is available from Ofsted's website: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofsted . If you would like Ofsted to send you a copy of the guidance, please telephone 0300123 4234, or email enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk .

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