Children's Home run by Cambian Childcare Limited in Warwickshire

Inspection report children’s home: SC476249 1 SC476249 Registered provider: Cambian Childcare Limited Interim inspection 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 and accommodation for up to five young people. The home is privately owned and managed. The home provides therapeutic services.

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Information about this children’s home

Judgement at last inspection: Requires improvement to be good

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and young people since the most recent full inspection

This home was judged requires improvement to be good at the last full inspection. At the interim inspection, Ofsted judges that the home has declined in effectiveness. Since the last inspection, one young person has been admitted to the home and two young people have moved out. Staff and managers do not consistently follow safeguarding processes during incidents. Records around such incidents lack sufficient detail regarding disclosures and actions taken. In four out of five safeguarding incidents sampled during the inspection, there were delays in notifying key partners, such as the Emergency Duty Team and the Multi- Agency Safeguarding Hub, following a disclosure made by a young person. There has been an overall lack of managerial oversight regarding the quality of staff practice around incidents and the capacity of staff to follow safeguarding processes effectively. These shortfalls affect the opportunity to reflect on practice.

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and young people since the most recent full inspection

Staff have, on occasion, failed to implement protective measures, due to ineffective communication with key partners. These delays have left young people vulnerable. Despite the shortfalls, young people are making steady progress in respect of their social, emotional and health needs. For some young people, this progress means that they have successfully moved on to new placements. For example, staff worked closely with a new provider to ensure that the needs of one young person were understood and that the required support was in place to enable a successful move. The child’s social worker was Inspection report children’s home: SC476249 2 particularly impressed with the support of one member of staff, saying: ‘They went above and beyond to support [young person’s name] and even attended meetings on her days off. This has very much been appreciated and has most definitely assisted in making the transition smooth and positive.’

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and young people since the most recent full inspection

When young people’s behaviour escalates, resulting in concerns or risks to other young people, staff and managers follow young people’s behaviour management plans. There have been a high number of physical interventions since the last inspection. However, physical intervention is only used as a last resort, in line with a young person’s behaviour plan. There has been a dramatic reduction in physical restraints in the previous two months before this inspection, as one young person has started to make positive progress. Staff continue to place a high value on education, and work collaboratively with young people and schools to overcome barriers to engagement. Since the last inspection, one young person has successfully moved into full-time education and another young person has transitioned on to secondary school and is making good progress. However, some young people struggle to engage in formal learning and the manager has not challenged

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and young people since the most recent full inspection

this with partner agencies. Managers are aware of the concerns raised by Ofsted during the inspection and are committed to making improvements to ensure that young people live in a safe and caring environment. The manager ensures that young people are treated fairly and in an inclusive manner through young people’s meetings. However, young people do not have clear access to advocacy services.

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

23/05/2017 Full Requires improvement to be good 16/01/2017 Interim Declined in effectiveness 02/08/2016 Full Good 04/02/2016 Interim Sustained effectiveness

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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, 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. Inspection report children’s home: SC476249 3

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Requirement Due date

Engaging with the wider system to ensure children’s needs are met. In meeting the quality standards, the registered person must ensure that staff seek to secure the input and services required to meet each child’s needs. If the registered person considers, or staff consider, a placing authority’s or a relevant person’s performance or response to be inadequate in relation to their role, challenge the placing authority or the relevant person to seek to ensure that each child’s needs are met in accordance with the child’s relevant plans. (Regulation 5(b)and(c)) 30/11/2017

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Requirement Due date

The protection of children standard is that children are protected from harm and enabled to keep themselves safe.

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Requirement Due date

In particular, the standard in paragraph (1) requires the registered person to ensure that staff 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; help each child to understand how to keep safe; have the skills to identify and act upon signs that a child is at risk of harm; manage relationships between children to prevent them from harming each other; understand the roles and responsibilities in relation to protecting children that are assigned to them by the registered person; take effective action whenever there is a serious concern about a child’s welfare; and are familiar with, and act in accordance with, the home’s child protection policies; 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; that the effectiveness of

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Requirement Due date

the home’s child protection policies is monitored regularly. (Regulation 12(1)and(2)(a)(b)(e)) 30/11/2017

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Recommendations

 All children must have access to appropriate advocacy support, and where possible this should be provided by a person that the child chooses. Looked after children are entitled to an independent advocate to advise them and ensure they have the support needed to express their views, wishes and feelings about their care and lives. (‘Guide to the children’s homes regulations including the quality standards’, page 23, paragraph 4.16)

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Information about this inspection

Inspectors have looked closely at the experiences and progress of children and young people. Inspectors considered the quality of work and the differences made to the lives of children and young people. They watched how professional staff work with children and young people and each other and discussed the effectiveness of help and care provided. Wherever possible, they talked to children and young people and their families. In Inspection report children’s home: SC476249 4 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 focused on the effectiveness of the home and the progress and experiences of children and young people since the most recent full inspection. Using the ‘Social care common inspection framework’, this inspection was carried out

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Information about this inspection

under the Care Standards Act 2000 to assess the effectiveness of the service, how it meets the core functions of the service as set out in legislation, 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’.

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Children’s home details

Registered provider: Cambian Childcare Limited

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: Cambian Group, 4th Floor Waterfront Building, Chancellors Road, Hammersmith Embankment, London W6 9RU

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Children’s home details

Responsible individual: Alison Blyth-Bishop

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Inspector

Lisa Walsh, social care inspector Inspection report children’s home: SC476249 5 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 looked after children, safeguarding and child protection.

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