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

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1236620 1

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Information about this children’s home

The home is registered to provide care and accommodation for up to four children who have emotional and/or behavioural difficulties. This home provides care and therapy to children who have experience of child sexual exploitation and sexual abuse.

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This monitoring visit

This monitoring inspection was completed in order to review the action taken by the provider to meet three compliance notices. These notices were issued following an inadequate inspection judgement on 25 April 2017. In addition, the inspector monitored the current performance of the home to determine if the notice to restrict accommodation served on the 28 April 2017 could be lifted.

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This monitoring visit

At the time of this inspection only one young person remained living at the home. The inspector spoke with the young person and a member of staff. The registered manager was involved in the inspection and relevant records were reviewed.

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This monitoring visit

The young person told the inspector that she was really happy living at the home. The young person is optimistic for the future. She is engaged in completing exams and is currently exploring college options.

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This monitoring visit

Action has been taken to review and update the statement of purpose, the children’s guide, and the records in relation to the clinical therapeutic model used in the home.

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This monitoring visit

Support has been provided to the staff team by managers and staff from the provider’s other homes who have additional experience in supporting young people who may have been sexually abused and at risk of exploitation. Staff have received further training since the last inspection and a summary record has been developed to support staff to better understand the therapeutic model used in the home.

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This monitoring visit

A clinical psychologist has been appointed. Recruitment details and qualification Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1236620 2 records of this person were not available at the home and had not been assessed by the registered manager.

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This monitoring visit

Risk assessments and care plans have been reviewed and updated. Care plans are written using the ‘SMART’ format. However, the registered manager had not successfully used this format and, as a result, the documents need further improvement to enable staff to understand and successfully implement young people’s care plans.

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This monitoring visit

Risk assessments remain of variable quality, and are still not individualised. These documents do not demonstrate that the registered manager has a sufficient understanding of the risks and risk management process. Risks related to restrictive practices used in the home have not been thoroughly assessed.

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This monitoring visit

A case review has been completed by Ofsted and a decision made that sufficient action has been taken to comply with the requirements of the compliance notices. However, further work is required to address ongoing shortfalls in the quality of the provision, and to tackle the additional weaknesses which have been identified during this inspection. The notice to restrict accommodation remains in place at this time.

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This monitoring visit

Requirements have been made following this monitoring inspection and a meeting will be arranged with the provider.

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This monitoring visit

A further full inspection will take place.

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Recent inspection history

Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement 25/04/2017 Full Inadequate 17/01/2017 Full Requires improvement Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1236620 3

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Statutory requirements

This section sets out the actions that the registered person must take to meet 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 must comply within the given timescales.

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Requirement Due date

The protection of children standard 12.—(1) The protection of children standard is that children are protected from harm and enabled to keep themselves safe. (2) In particular, the standard in paragraph (1) requires the registered person to ensure— (a) that staff— (i) assess whether each child is at risk of harm, taking into account information in the child’s relevant plans, and, if necessary, make arrangements to reduce the risk of any harm to the child; (ii) help each child to understand how to keep safe; (iii) have the skills to identify and act upon signs that a child is at risk of harm; (v) understand the roles and responsibilities in relation to protecting children that are assigned to them by the registered person; (vi) take effective action whenever there is a serious concern about a child’s welfare; and (vii) are familiar with, and act in accordance with, the home’s child protection policies; (b) that the home’s day-to-day care is arranged and

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Requirement Due date

delivered so as to keep each child safe and to protect each child effectively from harm; (e) that the effectiveness of the home’s child protection policies is monitored regularly. 10/07/2017

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Requirement Due date

Fitness of workers 32.—(1) The registered person must recruit staff using recruitment procedures that are designed to ensure children’s safety. (2) The registered person may only— (a) employ an individual to work at the children’s home; or (b) if an individual is employed by a person other than the registered person to work at the home in a position in which the individual may have regular contact with children, allow that individual to work at the home, if the individual satisfies the requirements in paragraph (3). 10/07/2017 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1236620 4 (3) The requirements are that— (a) the individual is of integrity and good character; (b) the individual has the appropriate experience, qualification and skills for the work that the individual is to perform; (c) the individual is mentally and physically fit for the purposes of the work that the individual is to perform; and

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Requirement Due date

( d) full and satisfactory information is available in relation to the individual in respect of each of the matters in Schedule 2. 13.—(1) The leadership and management standard is that the registered person enables, inspires and leads a culture in relation to the children’s home that— (a) helps children aspire to fulfil their potential; and (b) promotes their welfare. (2) In particular, the standard in paragraph (1) requires the registered person to— (a) lead and manage the home in a way that is consistent with the approach and ethos, and delivers the outcomes, set out in the home’s statement of purpose; (b) ensure that staff work as a team where appropriate; (c) ensure that staff have the experience, qualifications and skills to meet the needs of each child; (f) understand the impact that the quality of care provided in the home is having on the progress and experiences of each child and use this understanding to inform the development

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Requirement Due date

of the quality of care provided in the home; (g) demonstrate that practice in the home is informed and improved by taking into account and acting on— (i) research and developments in relation to the ways in which the needs of children are best met; and (ii) feedback on the experiences of children, including complaints received; and (h) use monitoring and review systems to make continuous improvements in the quality of care provided in the home. 10/07/2017

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Recommendations

 When a child returns to the home after being missing from care or away from the home without permission, the responsible local authority must provide an opportunity for the child to have an independent return home interview. Homes should take account of information provided by such interviews when assessing risks and putting arrangements in place to protect each child (‘Guide to the children’s homes regulations including the quality standards’, page 45, paragraph 9.30). Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1236620 5  Children should have access to a computer and the internet to support their education and learning, unless there are specific safeguarding reasons why this would be inappropriate. In such cases, the home should consider whether and how it can support the child to access a computer and the internet safely (‘Guide to the children’s homes regulations including the quality standards’, page 29, paragraph 5.19).

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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.

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Information about this inspection

This inspection was carried out under the Care Standards Act 2000. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1236620 6

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Children’s home details

Registered provider: Cambian Childcare Ltd

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: Cambian, Waterfront, Hammersmith Embankment, Chancellors Road, LONDON W6 9RU

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Inspectors

Janice Hawtin, social care inspector Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1236620 7 to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children’s social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher training, further education and skills, adult and community learning, and education and training in prisons and other secure establishments. It assesses council children’s services, and inspects services for children looked after, safeguarding and child protection.

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Inspectors

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