Children's Home run by Grace Care Limited in Nottingham

Inspection report children’s home: SC436818 1 SC436818 Registered provider: Grace Care Limited

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Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

The home provides care for up to three children who have a learning disability, including those who have an autistic spectrum disorder. The home provides care for children who require medium- to long-term, settled care.

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Information about this children’s home

The registered manager has enrolled to undertake the relevant leadership and management qualification.

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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 requires improvement to be good

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good

The effectiveness of leaders and managers requires improvement to be good

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good

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

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good

Overall judgement at last inspection: good

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good

Enforcement action since last inspection: none Inspection report children’s home: SC436818 2

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

19/07/2017 Full Good 16/03/2017 Interim Sustained effectiveness 28/11/2016 Full Outstanding 25/02/2016 Interim Sustained effectiveness Inspection report children’s home: SC436818 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 protection of children standard is that children are protected from harm and enabled to keep themselves safe. In particular, the standard in paragraph (1) requires the registered person to ensure— that staff—

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Requirement Due date

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;

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help each child to understand how to keep safe.

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Requirement Due date

(Regulation 12 (1)(2)(a)(i)(ii)) 30/07/2018

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

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

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ensure that staff have the experience, qualifications and skills to meet the needs of each child;

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ensure that the home’s workforce provides continuity of care to each child;

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use monitoring and review systems to make continuous improvements in the quality of care provided in the home.

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Requirement Due date

(Regulation 13 (1)(a)(b)(2)(c)(e)(h)) 28/09/2018 Inspection report children’s home: SC436818 4

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Recommendations

 Staff need to have the knowledge and skills to understand each child’s education plan and training targets and their next steps for learning. (‘Guide to the children’s homes regulations including the quality standards’, page 28, paragraph 5.11)

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

This home is providing structured and nurturing care for children.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Children have helpful, clear, weekly planners informed by their choices and views. Children are supported to participate in a range of after-school activities. They have developed skills and confidence as a result of attending activities that they have not tried before.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Children have good education attendance and up-to-date education plans. However, it is not always clear that residential care plan targets are linked to, or influenced by, education plan targets.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

As a result of good multi-agency working and timely information-sharing with healthcare professionals, children have improved sleep routines, improving diet and improving well- being.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

One child has moved on from the home in a positive, planned way. Staff worked closely with adult services and college staff to support this significant transition for him. He has settled in his new placement and he is supported to maintain positive contact with a peer still living in the home.

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improvement to be good

All of the children have personal evacuation plans in place, but they had not been updated to take into account one child’s limited mobility. There has not been a fire drill involving night-care staff to specifically test evacuation procedures in light of this child’s limited mobility. The manager ensured that a plan was in place to address this during the inspection.

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improvement to be good

A requirement is made to ensure that risk assessments are in place that address and help children to understand risks associated with particular activities, and risks Inspection report children’s home: SC436818 5 associated with the use of digital technology.

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improvement to be good

Children benefit from access to advocates, and they are consulted about the care they receive. However, consultation would be strengthened by asking children about how safe they feel.

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improvement to be good

Since the last inspection, staff have received training in safeguarding adults. There is also now clear advice to staff in respect of reporting safeguarding concerns for young people aged over 18 years. Any safeguarding concerns are appropriately referred, discussed and resolved. There have been no incidents of physical restraints. Staff use de-escalation techniques effectively.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: requires improvement to be good

The registered manager is currently on maternity leave, but will be returning to work in the near future. Interim management arrangements are suitable. An accessible and experienced responsible individual supports managers. However, the management of staff performance issues is inconsistent. Some staff have not sustained improvement and there has been slow progress for others. Managers should be more robust in evaluating the impact of training and support on staff performance.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: requires improvement to be good

The managers need to review the use of relief staff to ensure that relief staff are qualified or are undertaking relevant qualifications training. They should also review the use of relief staff as waking night staff. This is to ensure that there is not the potential for staff caring for children during the night or early morning who are not familiar to the children. A requirement is made to address this.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: requires improvement to be good

There are regular management and team meetings. Staff and managers receive individual supervision. Records are open and transparent about areas for development within the home.

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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 Inspection report children’s home: SC436818 6 children’s homes regulations including the quality standards’. Inspection report children’s home: SC436818 7

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: 27 Meadow Close, Nottingham NG2 3HZ

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Children’s home details

Responsible individual: Beverley Russell

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Inspector

Cathey Moriarty, social care inspector Inspection report children’s home: SC436818 8 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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Inspector

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