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

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 is positive about the care that they receive and feels safe in the home.  The manager ensures that the young person feels consulted about their care and their day-to-day needs.

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The children's home provision is good because:

 The manager ensures that there are good working relationships with partner agencies that promote collaborative working.

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The children's home provision is good because:

 The manager ensures that the young person has good school attendance.

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The children's home provision is good because:

 The manager ensures that staff are all qualified and receive good training, support and supervision.

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The children's home provision is good because:

 The manager ensures that the young person benefits from good health.

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The children's home provision is good because:

 The manager ensures that the young person’s contact with significant family members and friendships is encouraged, supported and maintained well.

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The children's home provision is good because:

 The manager ensures that the young person is encouraged and supported to increase their semi-independent skills in line with their ability and level of understanding.

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Information about this children's home

A private company operates the children’s home. The home provides care for one young person, irrespective of gender, who has emotional and/or behavioural 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 Improved effectiveness

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Recent inspection history

12/02/2015 Interim Declined in effectiveness

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Good

The relationships between the young person and staff are good. The young person receives consistent care from an experienced and committed staff team that knows them well. The young person told the inspector, ‘The staff here are all right, good to talk to and they care for me. They have helped me to keep out of trouble.’ The manager ensures that the young person’s placement plan sets out clearly what staff must do to meet the young person’s needs effectively. All staff are aware of the details in the plan. This helps to ensure that the young person is treated consistently, and that staff understand set objectives and how these should be met. The manager ensures that the young person has a clear health plan and is registered with the relevant primary healthcare services. The organisation’s therapeutic team works alongside staff and the young person, providing clinical oversight as necessary. The manager ensures that the young person is fully supported to attend school.

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Good

This helps the young person to making meaningful progress in their learning. The manager ensures that the young person is supported to maintain contact with family and carers. Staff support these arrangements practically and provide emotional support. These arrangements reflect any restrictions that may be in place to safeguard the young person. The young person is supported to develop their independence and life skills, relevant to their age, level of understanding and ability. The young person participates in a range of constructive leisure activities outside the home. These opportunities enable the young person to develop sporting talents and hobbies. Staff are good at encouraging and supporting the young person to pursue specific hobbies, particularly fishing and boxing.

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people are helped and protected

The manager ensures that the young person is safe in the home. Staff fully understand policies and procedures in relation to safeguarding, and social workers confirm that staff keep the young person safe. The manager ensures that there is a clear risk assessment and effective risk management strategies in place to protect the young person. The manager ensures that positive behaviour is promoted and that restraint is rarely used. Individual behaviour management plans identify triggers for negative behaviour and the strategies for managing these behaviours. Incentive reward systems and regular key-worker sessions enable the young person to manage their own behaviour more effectively. The manager ensures that locally agreed protocols help to inform the home’s missing-from-care procedures. Because of this, staff work effectively with the police and the local safeguarding team to ensure that information about the young

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people are helped and protected

person is appropriately shared, so that the young person is protected in the community. The manager ensures that the young person lives in a home that provides physical safety and security. Fire safety and health and safety checks are regularly carried out. Records show that the young person and staff regularly practise evacuation of the building so that they know how to respond in an emergency or fire. The manager ensures that the young person is protected by the organisation's robust recruitment practices. Staff are vetted and assessed as suitable before any appointment is confirmed. These procedures protect the young person from individuals who may pose a risk to them.

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Good

The manager has been in post since July 2014 and holds a level 5 diploma in leadership, health and social care. The manager ensures that staff have good access to training opportunities to enhance their knowledge and skills. All staff hold the national vocational qualification level 3 in residential childcare. Staff report that they feel well supported by the manager. They have regular formal supervision sessions when they can discuss their own training and development needs as well as the care of the young person. The manager ensures that the home operates in line with the aims and objectives, as set out in the statement of purpose. Potential placing authorities are able to refer to the statement of purpose, in order to understand the care and support that a young person can expect to receive. The young person's guide is written in a format that is appropriate for the current young person. This guide helps to inform

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Good

the young person about what they can expect from staff and how they can raise concerns about their care. The manager ensures that there is regular monitoring through regulation 44 visits to the home. Monthly monitoring reports review the home’s performance and the young person’s progress. The manager ensures that communication between the different agencies is prompt and effective and that all parties are kept well informed of the young person’s progress. The manager understands the strengths of the home, recognises areas for improvement and has in place a detailed development plan, which sets out clear and realistic targets. No requirements or recommendations were made at the last 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 that 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 that 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 whom 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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