Children's Home run by Cambian Childcare Limited in Rochdale

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 young person and staff team have developed positive relationships, built on trust and shared experiences, this has resulted in the young person feeling safe and well cared for.  The young person benefits from clear routines and boundaries, which assists them to positively manage their behaviour. Individualised incentives are in place to reward positive behaviour.  Clear links between risk management plans, behaviour management strategies and individual incentives demonstrate good quality of care and protection provided to the young person.  The manager is passionate and committed to achieving positive outcomes for the young person living at the home. She is a strong advocate and leads by example providing a strong role model for the staff team.  The manager has ensured that recent changes to the staff team have not impacted on the stability of the young person’s placement.  Staff say they feel well supported in their role and they feel valued by the

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The children's home provision is good because:

manager. They receive regular supervision and training which underpins their role.  The manager has a good system in place to monitor the home to drive improvement. She also effectively uses the independent visitor report to improve the quality of care in the home.  One shortfall was identified at this inspection, the manager took action to rectify this during the inspection, demonstrating her commitment to providing good quality care.

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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

12: The protection of children standard:

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Requirement Due date

In order to meet the protection of children standard the registered provider must ensure that:

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Requirement Due date

the premises are furnished to meet the needs of the young person, this specifically relates to the young person's bathroom. (Regulation 6 (2)(c)) 15/01/2016

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Information about this children's home

This service is a privately run children's home. The home provides care and accommodation for one young person with behavioural and/or emotional difficulties. The home is also registered as a school with the Department for Education.

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Recent inspection history

Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

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Recent inspection history

12/02/2015 CH - Interim sustained effectiveness

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good

The young person benefits from highly individualised care, and is supported on a daily basis by two staff members. The small staff team are committed to building effective working relationships with the young person. They enjoy spending time together engaged in positive activities. The young person commented: ‘it’s a good place to live, I like my staff team and get on really well with some of them. I like to plan to do things with different staff. I enjoy being with them, especially being cosy on the sofas at night time.’

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good

The young person has made good progress in all areas of their development since living at the home. The placing social worker commented: ‘she is coming on in leaps and bounds, emotionally and educationally she is doing really well.’

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good

The manager and staff team recognise the importance of working consistently with the young person, maintaining routine and clear boundaries. The staff team work to provide a warm and nurturing environment for the young person to feel settled and well cared for. The staff team are supported by the management team and the organisational clinical psychologist to understand and manage the young person’s known and emerging emotional behaviour. This consultation process provides the staff team with support to manage their own feelings around some of the behaviour displayed and be well prepared to support the young person in their emotional development.

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good

The young person is engaged in her educational plan; given her individual starting point she is making significant progress. She is engaged in individual lessons and is starting to build on her attendance at the organisation’s school, away from the home. The staff team place a strong emphasis on educational attendance and attainment and support the young person in her attendance and commitment to education.

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good

The manager and staff team have a good awareness of the young person’s cultural identity and have ensured her heritage is embraced and celebrated. The young person has established links with a local hairdresser who specialises in Afro- Caribbean hair, this has resulted in the young person securing a part time job in the salon. This not only builds her self-esteem it also enables her to build links and relationships with people from similar backgrounds and culture. The young person is enjoying teaching the staff team about her heritage. For example she has enjoyed shopping in a local supermarket which stocks culturally diverse food and sharing different foods from her culture with them. The young person’s view and wishes are central to the ethos of the home, she engages in daily discussions, individual meetings and regular key work sessions. The young person enjoys going into the local town and shopping in charity shops;

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good

this builds an awareness of the local community and supports her individual interests. The young person has not yet engaged in community activities with peers of her own age, but she confirms that the staff team have researched different activities for her to try when she is ready. The manager and staff team regularly update the young person about the on-going care planning process; this ensures she is aware of any updates and understands the plan for her future.

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good

The young person is supported to build on her independent living skills in preparation for living independently. She enjoys being part of the house and regularly helps the staff with day-to–day chores such as washing up and cooking.

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good

The young person has not yet had contact with her family. However the manager and local authority have clear plans in place to support the young person to have family contact over the Christmas period.

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good

The young person benefits from being cared for by a small staff team. Although the manager has made some changes to the staff team, a core group have remained consistent which has resulted in the development of very good relationships with the young person. This has contributed to the young person saying that they feel very safe in the home and well cared for.

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good

The staff team have the experience and understanding of the young person to positively manage their behaviour. The staff team maintain clear and consistent boundaries. This means the young person knows how they will be looked after and what behaviour is acceptable. This has resulted in a period of stability for the young person. Professionals comment: ‘I have seen really good interaction between X and individual staff members, X seems really settled which is a real positive for her.’ Staff are trained in the appropriate use of physical restraint. However, the staff team focus on positive behaviour and rewards and incentives, which means incidents of restraint are very rare and only used as a last resort. The whole staff engage the young person in key work sessions targeting specific areas of difficulties and vulnerability. This has helped the young person reflect on their behaviour and the choices they make.

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good

The manager and staff team have a good understanding of the individual risks relating to the young person. The young person does not go missing from home, is not at risk of exploitation or self-harm. Despite this the manager has ensured there are detailed risk management plans in place to support the staff to take positive action if these risks become apparent. The staff team benefit from a comprehensive training programme which covers each of these areas. The majority of the staff team have experience in these areas and are confident that they would be able to access support and advice to ensure the young person’s safety was prioritised.

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good

Robust staff recruitment policies and procedures are in place to help protect young people from unsuitable adults. The home environment is safe and there are procedures in place to ensure that relevant checks take place.

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good

The manager has recently undertaken the role of home manager. She has several years’ experience of managing in a children’s home. She has completed her application to be registered. She is also the manager for two other solo placement homes in the local community. A detailed and lengthy handover from the previous Registered Manager has ensured the change in leadership has not impacted on the young person in placement.

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good

The manager takes effective action to ensure the staff team are able to meet the individual needs of the young person living at the home. This is because the young person’s individual needs are integral to the ethos of the home. Since being in post the manager has reviewed the staff team and made some changes. This is to ensure the young person is being supported by a staff team who are able to meet her needs. Consequently positive relationships are developed between the young person and the staff team.

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good

The staff team report that they are well supported by the management team and benefit from regular and effective individual supervision and team meetings. New staff receive a detailed and thorough induction into the role. Appraisals are completed on an annual basis; young people have the opportunity to share their views about the individual team members. The training programme is comprehensive and tailored to meet the individual young person’s identified and emerging needs.

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good

The young person has made significant progress living at the home in all areas of her development, from her individual starting point. Effective monitoring systems enable the manager to track the progress the young person is making on a weekly and monthly basis. This means that the management team have a clear overview of the progress being made and ensure care planning is being tailored appropriately to effectively support the young person.

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good

The manager has reviewed the current development plan and made amendments to it, consequently she has a sound overview of the strengths and areas for development within the home. She is effective at taking positive action to implement change in order to provide a high quality of care and support to the young person.

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good

Since taking over her role as manager she has reviewed the Statement of Purpose to ensure the home is achieving the stated aims and objectives and that the staff structure remains up to date, and she has as required, provided updates to HMCI.

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good

The management and staff team develop quality relationships with professionals involved in supporting young people; this means young people benefit from a holistic support package and regular review of care plans ensure support is targeted to promote continuous development and achievement. One professional commented: ‘the placement is really meeting X’s needs, communication with the team is really very good.’

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good

No shortfalls were raised at the last inspection. One shortfall was identified at this inspection in relation to the standard of the young person’s bathroom, the manager took action during the inspection to ensure this was addressed. The manager acknowledged this should have been addressed prior to inspection. This was addressed with the staff team, with the implementation of regular building checks to prevent this re-occurring.

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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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