Children's Home run by Cambian Childcare Limited in Staffordshire

Inspection report children’s home: 1258091 1 Registered provider: Cambian Childcare Ltd

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Full inspection Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

This privately owned children’s home is registered to care for up to five children who have suffered early life trauma. There is a manager in post who is not yet registered.

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Overall experiences and progress of

children and young people, taking into account

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good

How well children and young people are helped and protected good

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good

The effectiveness of leaders and managers good

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good

The children’s home provides effective services that meet the requirements for good.

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good

Date of last inspection: 12 December 2017

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good

Overall judgement at last inspection: requires improvement to be good

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good

Enforcement action since last inspection: none Inspection report children’s home: 1258091 2

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

12/12/2017 Full Requires improvement to be good Inspection report children’s home: 1258091 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, 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 leadership and management standard is that the registered person enables, inspires and leads a culture in relation to the children’s home that—

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Requirement Due date

helps children aspire to fulfil their potential; and promotes their welfare.

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Requirement Due date

In particular, the standard in paragraph (1) requires the registered person to—

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Requirement Due date

ensure that the home’s workforce provides continuity of care to each child. (Regulation 13 (1)(a)(b)(2)(e)) 31/05/2018

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

The core staff team members know the children very well. Staff understand the children’s previous experiences and how these affect them. As a result, the children’s individual needs are met and they make steady progress.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

The manager and staff are child focused. Staff undertake child-friendly direct work with the children. The work is creative and engages the children, helping them to understand what is being discussed. Topics include managing worries, bullying and how the children have reacted to different situations.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

A clinical team supports staff to care for the children using a therapeutic approach. Regular team around the child meetings take place led by a psychologist. An assistant psychologist visits the home every one to two weeks to observe the dynamics within the home. These systems support children’s progress.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Children are happy living in the home. They enjoy a number of different activities and staff encourage and promote new interests. Inspection report children’s home: 1258091 4 Overall, children make positive progress. When children experience difficulties in their lives, staff support them well.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Children are fully involved in their care planning and decisions within the home. Children have created their own files that are child friendly. Children attend weekly ‘children’s chat’ meetings, they help choose meals and activities each week, and children have specific jobs such as helping to test the fire alarms and being a ‘DVD monitor’.

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How well children and young people are helped and protected: good

Children rarely go missing from the home. On the one occasion that this did happen, staff acted quickly and followed procedure. As a result, the child returned to the home in a short space of time.

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How well children and young people are helped and protected: good

Children are physically restrained only when they or others are at risk of harm. The manager thoroughly reflects on any incidents that take place. As a result, she is able to implement further strategies to reduce risks. Children and staff are well supported after an incident.

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How well children and young people are helped and protected: good

The manager’s reflective approach creates a positive culture that helps staff learn from their experiences and mistakes. This allows staff to be honest, explore different approaches and question and challenge practice.

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How well children and young people are helped and protected: good

The manager ensures that risk assessments give clear guidance to staff. Risk assessments are reviewed and updated if an incident happens.

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How well children and young people are helped and protected: good

The manager and staff work collaboratively with partner agencies. Police officers regularly visit the home and undertake positive work with the children. Other professionals and a parent reported how well the manager and staff communicate with them. A social worker told the inspector, ‘[The manager] provides timely updates in respect of any incidents and general progress and all documentation is extremely comprehensive.’

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How well children and young people are helped and protected: good

The registered manager takes all allegations seriously, regardless of the severity, and implements safeguarding measures to ensure that children and staff remain safe.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The current manager has been in post since December 2017. The manager has made effective changes since being in post. She has met all of the shortfalls identified in the previous inspection and has raised the home’s judgement to good.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The manager ensures that staff are safely recruited. However, she has not recruited and sustained a full staff team. Five staff have left since the last inspection and three staff have started. The manager has worked hard to ensure that the same agency staff and Inspection report children’s home: 1258091 5 members of staff from other homes have been used consistently. However, the situation is likely to have caused some unsettlement for the children.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The staff team is relatively new, and the staff have a mix of experience and qualifications. The manager recognises that training is an area for development and already has a training plan in place to address this. The reflective approach within the staff team also helps staff to learn and develop their skills.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The staff team members have regular supervision. Staff feel supported by the manager and feel that she is always available when needed.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The manager has good monitoring systems in place to capture children’s progress and ensure that documentation is up to date. This allows her to understand the strengths within the home and the areas that require development.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The manager has many positive ideas that are in their infancy. She has a clear child- focused vision for the home that she continues to implement.

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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 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.

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Information about this inspection

Using the ‘Social care common inspection framework’, this inspection was carried out 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’. Inspection report children’s home: 1258091 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 Group, 4th Floor Waterfront Building, Chancellors Road, Hammersmith Embankment, London W6 9RU

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Inspector

Lisa O’Donovan, social care inspector Inspection report children’s home: 1258091 7 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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Inspector

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