Children's Home, Residential special school run by Hopscotch Solutions Limited in Rutland

children and young people since the most recent full inspection

This home was judged outstanding at the full inspection. At this interim inspection Ofsted judges that it has sustained effectiveness .

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children and young people since the most recent full inspection

This home continues to provide an outstanding service to young people, whose experiences are very good. Young people make good progress in all areas of their development. They receive excellent care from a committed staff team. The staff speak warmly and positively of young people and take a pride in the young people’s achievements and successes. Communication between young people and staff is warm and nurturing. This leads to good, positive and strong relationships. The home continues to provide a high-quality home environment that is clean, furnished to a high standard and, despite being a large building, homely. This leads to young people presenting as happy, settled and content.

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children and young people since the most recent full inspection

The managers and staff have good and effective partnerships with agencies, ensuring that young people receive the help and support that they need. This is particularly the situation for young people who require help with their emotional and mental health. These young people receive psychological assessment and services from the child and adolescent mental health services. Occupational health, and speech and language therapists provide good additional health support. Health care staff work in collaboration with care staff to provide personalised interventions for young people.

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children and young people since the most recent full inspection

Young people grow in confidence as their life skills develop. One young person has made good progress with his independence skills. The young person is now able to go grocery shopping, prepare and cook meals, make drinks and meet all of his own personal needs. Staff have ensured that the young person’s educational progress also remains a priority by promoting continued good attendance and participation at school. Consequently, this young person is on track to achieve successful outcomes both in his education and in relation to independence skills.

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children and young people since the most recent full inspection

The young people benefit from comprehensive and detailed care and placement plans. The registered managers oversee these plans, which contain crucial information required to provide good care to young people. Plans are subject to regular review and focus upon the services that young people may need to thrive.

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children and young people since the most recent full inspection

The behaviour of young people remains a high priority for the registered managers and staff. Young people have detailed and effective behaviour support plans that inform and guide staff practice in relation to de-escalating potentially difficult situations. Behaviour support plans also help staff to understand the precursors to challenging behaviour. The staff rarely have to resort to physical intervention but, when needed, staff follow clear procedures designed to keep everyone safe. The staff team has completed training in relation to the correct methods of physical intervention. The managers evaluate and analyse all incidents and seek to understand the underlying causes for negative behaviour in an attempt to prevent recurrence. The manager utilises management data to good effect to spot any trends and patterns, in an effort to reduce incidents of poor and negative behaviour.

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children and young people since the most recent full inspection

The managers and staff understand young people’s vulnerabilities and especially the risk emanating from internet and social media use. The managers have recently developed an IT champion role, and bespoke learning sessions will be provided to all young people. Staff have received additional training to keep their knowledge of social networking up to date. The IT champion has developed some interesting work regarding the number of social networking sites on the internet. This serves to improve young people’s knowledge.

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children and young people since the most recent full inspection

The organisational policies and procedures that guide staff practice in keeping young people safe are subject to regular review. Key documents, such as the safeguarding and missing from care policies, remain in line with the local safeguarding children board procedures. This means that the staff and managers can refer to such procedures if required, and they understand what actions to take in the event of concerns.

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Information about this children's home

The home provides care and accommodation for 12 young people who may have autism, learning difficulties, challenging behaviour, ADHD, epilepsy and dyspraxia. The home also incorporates a registered full-time school. The home is privately owned and managed.

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Recent inspection history

Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement 02/11/2016 Full Outstanding 07/03/2016 Interim Improved effectiveness 17/11/2015 Full Outstanding 24/03/2015 Interim Improved effectiveness

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What the inspection judgements mean

At the interim inspection we make a judgement on whether the home has improved in effectiveness, sustained effectiveness, or declined in effectiveness since the previous full inspection. This is in line with the ‘Inspection of children's homes: framework for inspection’.

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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 who it is trying to help, protect and look after. This inspection focused on the effectiveness of the home and the progress and experiences of children and young people since the most recent full inspection.

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Information about this inspection

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 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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