Children's home run by Broadwood Residential Limited in Rossendale

Inspector Pauline Yates

This monitoring visit . The registered provider has taken appropriate action to meet the majority of steps laid out in the compliance notices served after the last inspection on 16 th September 2016.

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Inspector Pauline Yates

The appropriate updating of young people’s risk assessments, and necessary analysis of risk and input of other agencies into these assessments, has not been met. This is with particular reference to risk assessments pertaining to violence and aggression and missing from home. The requirement to establish a clear system of review and evaluation has not been established or implemented. This will be further evaluated at a future inspection.

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Inspector Pauline Yates

Managers have ensured that a full audit of agency workers’ files has taken place. Company policy on the use of recruitment agencies has been updated and refreshed. This limits the use of agencies by managers to ‘reputable’ firms, who employ sufficient safeguarding checks on their residential agency workers. In addition, managers must now assure themselves that appropriate checks have been undertaken.

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Inspector Pauline Yates

The managers, in a multi-agency forum involving the police and the designated officer, have addressed areas of concern regarding the practice of some recruitment agencies. These improvements help to keep young people safe from adults who may pose a risk to their safety and welfare.

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Inspector Pauline Yates

Managers have taken steps to ensure that the investigation of complaints has been appropriately recorded and evaluated. This provides for transparency, increases managers’ awareness of any potential shortfalls in staff conduct, and contributes to keeping young people safe.

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Inspector Pauline Yates

Appropriate steps have been taken to strengthen the management team and ensure that there is a regular presence in the home of a manager. The interim managers have been offered suitable support and guidance. Active steps have been taken to recruit a deputy manager to the home. This ensures that there is suitable oversight to the care given to young people and that staff receive appropriate support to fulfil their role. As a consequence, and in addition, the manager spends direct time with the young person.

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Inspector Pauline Yates

Permanent staff now account for 50% of staffing on shifts. This ensures that young people are given continuity of care and stability.

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Inspector Pauline Yates

The majority of staff are also trained in safe de-escalation and physical intervention. However, staff on shift are not always aware of the risk assessments of young people. This is with particular reference to permanent staff not trained in safe de-escalation working with agency staff who are equally not trained in these methods. These occurrences have fallen short of the necessary staffing skills to meet young people’s risk assessments. This step to meet the compliance notice has therefore not been met. There have been no incidents where physical intervention has been required to be implemented by the staff since the last inspection. The skills and the training of staff, and young people’s presenting risks, will be evaluated further at the next inspection.

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Inspector Pauline Yates

There is only one permanent member of staff who is male, and he is due to leave his position imminently. As a result, young people are not consistently offered positive male role models with which to relate. This will be further evaluated at the next inspection.

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Inspector Pauline Yates

At the previous inspection, a requirement was made regarding the timely submission of the independent visitor’s reports. Since the last inspection on 16 th September, no reports have been received by Ofsted, and none since the visit in August. This reduces the regulatory body’s oversight of the home.

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Inspector Pauline Yates

A requirement made regarding the recording and management oversight of physical interventions has not been evidenced, because no interventions have taken place since the last inspection. Because of the issues regarding staff ratios on duty who have this training, and young people’s risk assessments, this requirement will be further evaluated at the next inspection.

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Inspector Pauline Yates

A requirement regarding the requesting of early care planning reviews, following increased concerns for the safety and welfare of young people, has not been evidenced. This is in part due to the timescales between the previous inspection and this monitoring visit. This requirement will therefore be further evaluated at the next inspection.

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Inspector Pauline Yates

At the previous inspection, a requirement was made regarding appropriate notification of allegations or serious incidents. Since the last inspection, timely notification has been made to Ofsted of incidents and no new allegations have been made.

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Inspector Pauline Yates

A requirement made regarding young people’s free movement around the home has not been met. Since the last inspection, a children looked after review took place within the home. Given the size of the home, with only one downstairs room being available, to monopolise it while meetings are taking place places an unreasonable restriction on the young person. This requirement will therefore be further evaluated at the next inspection

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Inspector Pauline Yates

At the previous inspection a requirement regarding robust challenge to a placing local authority regarding securing suitable educational provision was made. Since the inspection, a young person who was recently placed has an agreed, suitable educational placement.

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Information about this children’s home

This is a privately owned and run children’s home. It is registered to provide care and accommodation for up to one young person with emotional and/or behavioural difficulties.

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Statutory requirements

This section sets out the actions that 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

The independent person must provide a copy of the independent person’s report to HMCI. (Regulation 44 (7)(a)) 29/02/2016

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Requirement Due date

14. In order to meet the care planning standard, with particular reference to early reviews being requested in a timely manner, the registered person must ensure that: (2)(e) The child’s placing authority is contacted, and a review of that child’s relevant plans is requested, if: (i) the registered person considers that the child is at risk of harm or has concerns that the care provided for the child is inadequate to meet the child’s needs; (ii) the child is, or has been, persistently absent from the home without permission. 31/03/2016

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Requirement Due date

12. In order to meet the protection of children standard, with particular reference to ensuring that there are sufficient members of staff on duty to meet the requirements of young people’s risk assessments, and all serious incidents are appropriately reviewed and risk assessments updated, the registered provider must ensure that staff: (2)(a)(i) assess whether each child is at risk of harm, taking into account information in the child’s relevant plans, and, if 31/03/2016 necessary, make arrangements to reduce the risk of any harm to the child; (b) that the home’s day-to-day care is arranged and delivered so as to keep each child safe and to protect each child effectively from harm. The registered person must ensure that children can access all appropriate areas of the children’s home’s premises; and any limitation placed on a child’s privacy or access to any area of the home’s premises is intended to safeguard each child

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Requirement Due date

accommodated in the home; is necessary and proportionate; is kept under review and, if necessary, revised; and allows children as much freedom as is possible when balanced against the need to protect them and keep them safe. (Regulation 21 (b)(c)(i)(ii)(iii)(iv)) 31/03/2016

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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 children’s home since its last Ofsted inspection. This inspection was carried out under the Care Standards Act 2000. out in 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 this guidance, please telephone 0300 123 4234 or email enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk .

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