Children's Home run by Cambian Childcare Limited in Derbyshire

Inspection report for children‟s home - monitoring visit: SC476289 1 SC476289

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Cambian Childcare Ltd

Monitoring visit Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

This children‟s home provides long-term care and therapy for up to five children aged between four and 11 years old, who have emotional and/or behavioural needs. The registered provider is a private company operating a range of children‟s homes across the country.

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This monitoring visit

This children‟s home was judged to have declined in effectiveness at the interim inspection on 8 January 2018. A compliance notice was issued regarding the leadership and management of the home. Ofsted also imposed an additional registration condition relating to the admission of any further children to the home.

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This monitoring visit

A monitoring visit was carried out to assess the progress made in meeting the compliance notice, on 26 February 2018. The monitoring visit evidenced that the compliance notice was not met. Ofsted repeated this compliance notice.

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This monitoring visit

This monitoring visit was to check that action had been taken to address the shortfalls identified in the compliance notice. This visit identified that the compliance notice is still not met.

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This monitoring visit

The compliance notice required the registered person to ensure that there are effective management and leadership monitoring systems in place, which are essential in providing stability to children living at the home and in ensuring that children are provided with good-quality care from consistent caregivers.

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This monitoring visit

Children are still experiencing inconsistency. There continues to be extremely high staff turnover and a reliance on agency staff. Children who are very vulnerable and who need stability are still not receiving consistent care. Inspection report for children‟s home - monitoring visit: SC476289 2 There have been times when staff who are very new to the home have been left in charge. This practice had gone unnoticed by the organisation.

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This monitoring visit

Management arrangements are not effective. The organisation failed to monitor the home effectively during one week in April 2018 and there was no management presence during that time.

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This monitoring visit

There is a lack of management direction. Staff do not feel supported by managers. The staff are tired, emotional and not in a good situation to provide care to the children. Many staff have left. The staff who remain are vulnerable and there is a heightened risk of more staff wanting to leave. There is a feeling of constant change, with no resolution in sight.

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This monitoring visit

The acting manager has allowed a member of staff to work with the children without pre-employment checks being completed, including a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. This member of staff had not been formally appointed. The way that this home is being managed does not protected children sufficiently. Inspection report for children‟s home - monitoring visit: SC476289 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— (a) helps children aspire to fulfil their potential; and (b) promotes their welfare.

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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

(Regulation 13 (1)(a)(b)(2)(a)) 01/06/18

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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— (a) helps children aspire to fulfil their potential; and (b) 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 staff have the experience, qualifications and skills to meet the needs of each child; ensure that the home‟s workforce provides continuity of care to each child; 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)) 01/06/18

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Requirement Due date

The care planning standard is that children—

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Requirement Due date

receive effectively planned care in or through the children‟s home; and have a positive experience of arriving at or moving on from the home.

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Requirement Due date

In particular, the standard in paragraph (1) requires the 01/06/18 Inspection report for children‟s home - monitoring visit: SC476289 4 registered person to ensure— that children are admitted to the home only if their needs are within the range of needs of children for whom it is intended that the home is to provide care and accommodation, as set out in the home‟s statement of purpose.

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Requirement Due date

This is with particular reference to the admission of children when the home is experiencing continued high turnover of staff. The registered person must keep the statement of purpose under review and, where appropriate, revise it; and notify HMCI of any revisions and send HMCI a copy of the revised statement within 28 days of the revision. Subject to paragraph (6), the registered person must ensure that the home is at all times conducted in a manner which is consistent with its statement of purpose.

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must comply with requests by the child‟s placing authority to— provide a suitable representative to attend any meeting the placing authority may hold about a child.

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must ensure that all employees undertake appropriate continuing professional development.

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Requirement Due date

This is with specific reference to ensuring that all staff have received mandatory training and that staff are appropriately qualified. 01/06/18

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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 who is authorised by the registered person to do so (“the authorised person”) has spoken to the user about the measure; has signed the record to confirm it is accurate; within 5 days of the use of the measure, the registered person or the authorised person adds to the record confirmation that they have spoken to the child about the measure.

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Requirement Due date

(Regulation 35 (3)(b)(i)(ii)(c)) 01/06/18 Inspection report for children‟s home - monitoring visit: SC476289 5

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Recommendations

 Any registered manager placed in charge of a children‟s home or staff member in a deputy or supervisory capacity role such as „shift leader‟ should have substantial relevant experience of working in a children‟s home and have successfully completed their induction for the home in which they are employed. („Guide to the children‟s homes regulations including the quality standards‟, page 54, paragraph 10.21)

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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 monitoring visit.

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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: SC476289 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(s)

Caroline Brailsford, social care regulatory inspector Inspection report for children‟s home - monitoring visit: SC476289 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 looked after children, safeguarding and child protection.

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Inspector(s)

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