Children's home run by Cambian Childcare Limited in Hammersmith and Fulham

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 living at the home has continued to make good progress because of the high quality of individualised care and support provided by the staff team.  The young person is placed at the centre of the home, and his views are actively sought, listened to and actioned by the manager and staff team.  A small and consistent staff team looks after the young person. They are passionate about ensuring that the young person is safe and well cared for in the home.  Very good relationships are established between the young person and staff team, which ensures that the young person has adults who he can trust and enjoy spending positive time with in the home and the wider community.  The young person’s friendships and family support networks are valued and encouraged by the manager and staff team, which builds self-esteem and self-worth.  The staff team benefits from a supportive management team. The members

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The children’s home provision is good because:

of the team say that they are well supported in their roles by the manager and have regular supervisions and team meetings. They participate in regular training. This ensures that they are equipped to meet the needs of the young person placed in the home.  The home is managed by a dedicated manager, who is passionate about providing a high quality of care to each young person who lives at the home. She is committed to driving forward the quality of care provided by the small staff team.  Areas for the home’s development include ensuring that the fire risk assessment is complied with and that young people review and have the opportunity to contribute to their risk management plans.

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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 within the given timescales.

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Requirement Due date

In order to meet the protection of children standard:

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Requirement Due date

The staff must help each child to understand how to keep safe. This is with regard to supporting young people to read and understand their risk assessments. (Regulation 12 (2)(ii) 31/08/2016

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must ensure that the requirements of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) order 2005 are complied with. This is in direct relation to fire doors in the home. (Regulation 25 (b)) 31/08/2016

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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.

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Recent inspection history

Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

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Recent inspection history

23/02/2016 Interim Sustained effectiveness

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Recent inspection history

03/03/2015 Interim Sustained effectiveness

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Good

The young person is placed at the centre of the home, and high staffing levels are in place to support him. However, because of the progress the young person has made, the manager is working with the young person and individual staff members to reduce the level of staff supervision. This will help to prepare the young person for moving on from the home.

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Good

A small and consistent team works together to meet the young person’s individual needs. The young person is placed at the centre of the home and staff focus on his individual needs. Given that this is a solo placement, the staff’s attention is solely on the young person. The young person’s views are consistently sought, and his voice is clearly heard in the home, through individual discussions, regular consultation meetings and daily conversations with the manager and staff team. He has developed very good relationships with a number of the staff team, who he says listen to him. The young person enjoys a number of activities in the local and wider community. He has recently returned from a holiday in Wales, which he said was ‘brilliant’.

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Good

Since being in placement, the young person has made considerable progress in all aspects of his life. The staff team offered continued support and encouragement to the young person to ensure that he completed his formal education programme. Consequently the young person returned to education, regularly achieving high levels of attendance, and carried on going into school, despite being on study leave. One professional commented: ‘Getting X to buy-in to education was a huge achievement.’ He is now waiting for his examination results. The young person spoke with pride about his end of year prom: staff supported him to buy a suit for the prom and spoke proudly of his achievements and his behaviour during the prom.

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Good

The staff team supports the young person to ensure that his health needs are addressed and met, and supports him to make positive choices about his emotional and physical health. Staff have regular discussions with the young person regarding all aspects of his health, including developing and maintaining positive peer relationships. This ensures that he develops emotional resilience and has a support network away from the home.

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Good

The young person’s contact plan has continued to be supported, running in conjunction with his independence transition plan. The young person values his family heritage and enjoys spending time with different family members during his time in his local area. The staff team ensures that family members are supported during contact and understand how important his family are to him. These networks have been successfully maintained during the placement, which means that when he moves back to the locality he will have well-established networks of support in the community.

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Good

The staff team is now developing the independence transition plan, to support the young person to be prepared to move on from the home. The young person has made some progress with this plan. He has enjoyed learning how to budget and cook meals from fresh ingredients. This plan has been introduced at a pace which has encouraged the young person to engage with it, and it will continue to be developed over the summer. The placing social worker commented: ‘I am pleased X is focused and developing his independence skill, helping him to get ready to move on.’

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Good

Individual staff members have developed very good relationships with the young person in the home. They know his pattern of behaviour and have implemented consistent boundaries and routines, which have supported him to learn to regulate his behaviour. Consequently, there have been no physical restraints and very few negative consequences imposed. The young person confirms that he knows what level of behaviour is expected from him and that he has made significant progress in reducing some of his historical risk-taking behaviour. The placing social worker commented: ‘X’s risk-taking behaviour has really reduced since being placed. He is supported and challenged appropriately when issues do come up.’

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Good

Comprehensive and detailed risk management and behaviour management plans are in place to support the staff team with clearly identified strategies to care safely for the young person. However, the young person does not contribute to or routinely review these plans. This is a missed opportunity to support him to understand and review the individual risk management plans which are being implemented by the staff team. The manager has ensured that bespoke training has been facilitated when emerging risks have been identified, for example training on psychoactive substances.

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Good

There are very low levels of missing from home episodes, with two recorded incidents since the last inspection. On both occasions the staff followed the risk assessment and supported the young person to return to the home safely and quickly. The manager ensured that the placing authority facilitated independent visitor interviews with the young person. The young person said that he feels safe living at the home and has developed good relationships with key staff members, which means that he can speak about any issues which are concerning him. The young person is clear about the steps that staff will follow when they are concerned about his welfare, for example room searches being carried out if staff have serious concerns about his well-being. This consistent and clear approach contributes to the young person feeling safe and secure in the home and the actions the staff will take to safeguard him.

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Good

Organisational recruitment practice remains robust. The manager takes an active part in the recruitment of staff to ensure that she has a good mix of staff on the team in order to meet the individual needs of the young person. Checks are obtained and scrutinised prior to employment and then held securely. This supports young people to be cared for by adults who have been appropriately checked prior to employment.

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Good

A range of health and safety checks are routinely carried out to ensure that young people and staff live in a physically safe environment. However, actions for the fire risk assessment have not yet been completed. This means that fire doors have not been fitted as required by the risk assessment. The manager has made attempts to ensure that this is addressed. However, two fire doors have still not been fitted. The other doors around the home are compliant, and provide fire cover in the house in the event of an emergency. The manager should take action to ensure that the fire risk assessment is complied with.

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Good

The manager has been in post since 2015. She achieved registration in December 2015. She is also the registered manager for two other solo-occupancy homes. The manager is yet to commence the appropriate leadership and management qualification, but she is fully aware of her responsibility to achieve the qualification within three years of registration. She has several years of management experience within the organisation.

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Good

The manager and small staff team place the individual’s needs at the centre of the home. They work tirelessly to ensure that he is making continued progress in all areas. The placing social worker commented: ‘I am very pleased with the placement and the progress made with X, he is focused on his future now.’

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Good

The manager ensures that the home is staffed appropriately in order to meet the individual needs of the young person, who has remained in placement since the last inspection. The young person has benefited from a consistent and stable staff team, which is committed to supporting him to achieve his full potential. Individual team members receive regular and detailed supervisions, which they say support them to deliver high quality care to the young person and provide consistency as a staff team. The manager facilitates regular team meetings, which provide a supportive arena for the team to share ideas and ensure that they are working together in the best interests of the young person.

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Good

Staff receive a range of training that assists them to support the young person. The manager ensures that any specific training required to meet the individual needs of the young person is facilitated, in order for the staff team to be equipped to care for the young person and effectively support him with any emerging needs. Individual team members either hold the appropriate qualification or are waiting to be enrolled on the course. The manager has pursued with the organisation the shortfall of one member of staff not yet working towards qualification, following the successful completion of their probation period.

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Good

The home is adequately resourced and delivers the services and support outlined in the statement of purpose. The manager and management team monitor the home effectively to ensure that the young person is making progress, and that any emerging areas for development are swiftly identified and addressed.

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Good

Professionals and parents speak positively about the levels of communication established by staff and managers at the home. The whole staff team develops effective working relationships with professionals involved in the care of the young person in placement, to ensure that the young person benefits from a holistic package of care and support, resulting in the young person making sustained progress.

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Good

No shortfalls were identified at the previous inspection.

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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 children looked after 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

Homes (England) Regulations 2015 and the ‘Guide to the children’s homes regulations including the quality standards’. 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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