Children's home run by Beacon Childcare Ltd in Cheltenham

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC482141 1 SC482141

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Beacon Child Care Limited

Monitoring visit Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

The home is registered to provide care for four young people up to the age of 18. The home offers care for young people who have behavioural and/or emotional needs. The home is privately owned.

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This monitoring visit

This home was judged inadequate at the last full inspection on 23 August 2017. The inspection resulted in three compliance notices being issued.

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This monitoring visit

 the conditions of the premises  the failure of managers to give sufficient attention to the safe recruitment of staff  the failure of staff to use risk assessments to help reduce risks to young people.

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This monitoring visit

In order to evaluate the progress that managers have taken to meet the three compliance notices, a monitoring visit was undertaken on 4 October 2017.

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This monitoring visit

 There is significant improvement in the physical condition of the premises. This has addressed all previously highlighted concerns. For example, the toilet in the young people’s bathroom is repaired. All the improvements made have ensured that the home is now more comfortable for young people to live in. Consequently, the managers have met the compliance notice.  The detail added by staff to risk assessments has improved. The risk assessments are now much clearer and identify all known risks, triggers and control measures. As a result of these improvements, managers have met the Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC482141 2 compliance notice.  Progress in safe recruitment has not been sufficiently prompt to ensure that practice safeguards young people. There continues to be an absence of sufficient oversight of staff working in the home on a temporary basis. The failure to take swift action has resulted in the compliance notice not being

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This monitoring visit

met. Ofsted has reissued the compliance notice and will complete a further visit.

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This monitoring visit

There was one new concern identified at this visit. One young person has recently started going missing from the home. A detailed risk assessment provides advice for staff on what action to take to reduce risk. Records illustrate that staff follow the guidance in practice. However, when the young person returns home she does not have the opportunity of an independent return home interview. This means that opportunities to understand the young person’s views and use these to reduce risk are lost. Consequently, Ofsted has made an additional recommendation in this area.

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This monitoring visit

Ten other requirements made at the last inspection are ongoing and will be reviewed at the next full inspection.

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Recent inspection history

Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement 23/08/2017 Full Inadequate 14/02/2017 Interim Improved effectiveness 05/12/2016 Interim Declined in effectiveness 23/05/2016 Full Good Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC482141 3

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Statutory requirements

This section sets out the actions that the registered person(s) must take to meet the Care Standards Act 2000, the 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 protection of children standard is that the registered person must ensure that staff understand their roles and responsibilities in relation to protecting children that are assigned to them by the registered person and take effective action whenever there is a serious concern about a child’s welfare. (Regulation 12(2)(a)(v)(vi)) 02/11/2017

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Requirement Due date

The protection of children standard is that the registered person must ensure 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. (Regulation 12(2)(b)) 02/11/2017

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Requirement Due date

The leadership and management standard is that the registered person must ensure that staff have the experience, qualifications and skills to meet the needs of each child; ensure that the home has sufficient staff to provide care for each child; and ensure that the home’s workforce provides continuity of care to each child. (Regulation 13(2)(c)(d)(e)) 02/11/2017

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Requirement Due date

The care planning standard is that children receive effectively planned care in or through the children’s home. (Regulation 14(1)(a)) 02/11/2017

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must make arrangements for the handling, recording, safekeeping, safe administration and disposal of medicines into the home. (Regulation 23(1)) 02/11/2017

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must take adequate precautions against the risk of fire including the provision of suitable fire equipment in the children’s home. (Regulation 25(1)(a)).

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Requirement Due date

This includes regular routine checks of fire equipment and lighting and proper use of fire doors. 02/11/2017

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must recruit staff using recruitment procedures that are designed to ensure children’s safety. * 03/12/2017 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC482141 4 (Regulation 32(1))

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must ensure that any individual who works in the home in a care role has achieved the appropriate qualification by the relevant date. The relevant date is, in the case of an individual who starts working in a care role in a home after 1st April 2014, the date which falls 2 years after the date on which the individual started working in a care role in a home. (Regulation 32(5)(a)) 03/12/2018

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must ensure that within 24 hours of the use of a measure of control, discipline or restraint in relation to a child in the home a record is made which includes the time of the measure, there are written details of any methods or steps taken to avoid the use of the measure and the effectiveness and any consequence of the use of the measure.(Regulation 35(3)(a)(iii)(v)(vii)) 02/11/2017

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must ensure that, within 48 hours of the use of the measure, the registered person, or a person authorised by the registered person to do so, has spoken to the child about the measure, has signed the record to confirm it is accurate and within 5 days of the use of the measure adds to the record confirmation that they have spoken to the child about the measure. (Regulation 35(3)(b)(i)(ii)(iii)) 02/11/2017

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must ensure that a record is made of any complaint, the action taken in response and the outcome of any investigation. (Regulation 39(3)) 02/11/2017

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Requirement Due date

* These requirements are subject to a compliance notice.

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Recommendations

 Ensure that 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 the 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)

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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. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC482141 5 This inspection was carried out under the Care Standards Act 2000.

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Children’s home details

Registered provider: Beacon Child Care Limited

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: Hazlewoods, Windsor House, Bayshill Road, Cheltenham GL50 3AT

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Inspector

Alison Cooper, social care inspector Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC482141 6 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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