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 PLC

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

On 11 July 2018, Ofsted imposed a restriction of accommodation to prevent the admission of any further children to the home. This monitoring visit was carried out to check the progress in relation to this restriction notice. The monitoring visit evidenced that one of the two steps outlined in the restriction notice had been met. The restriction notice required the registered person to ensure that there are effective leadership and management monitoring systems in place in order to monitor the home effectively. A manager is now in post who is currently in the process of becoming registered. The manager has made a positive difference. She monitors staff performance very well and has a good understanding of the home’s strengths and weaknesses. The manager is taking care to develop the staff team effectively to ensure that improvements are maintained. Staff feel supported and are confident in the manager’s approach. The manager is continuing to stabilise the staff team, and she

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This monitoring visit

is working to ensure that there is better consistency for the children. Children are starting to have fewer incidents of concern. Since the last visit, all the children have had a more positive experience of living in the home. The other step in the restriction notice related to staffing. A stable staff team is needed to ensure that children are provided with good-quality care from consistent care givers. The staff team is settling down and there is less change. However, Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC476289 2 consistency for the children has not yet been achieved as there have been changes to the team since the last visit. Additionally, more changes are planned. This monitoring visit found that the home is not yet in a position to admit any more children. The reasons are set out below:  Children are still experiencing inconsistency from staff.  Staff changes have continued and there is a reliance on agency staff to

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This monitoring visit

provide care to the children.  Since the last monitoring visit, three new members of staff have come into post and two of these are agency staff. Another new member of staff is planned for the home and recruitment continues.  Staff are motivated and willing to do extra hours in order to help the children. Staff still report that they regularly have to stay up late into the night to get their jobs done. Extra pressure on their time comes from the need to complete training to become suitably qualified. Staff report that there are not enough hours to do this alongside their care role at the moment. Staff continue to be under a lot of pressure. There is a risk of staff having time off ill or leaving the service.  Staff interviewed agreed that it is too early to accommodate any more children. This view was also shared by the manager. The home is not yet ready to admit more children because the staff team is not yet

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This monitoring visit

providing consistency to the children. The full inspection, which took place on 2 June 2018, identified further requirements and two recommendations. These were not assessed during this visit and have been carried forward.

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Recent inspection history

Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement 05/06/2018 Full Requires improvement to be good 13/06/2017 Full Requires improvement to be good 01/02/2017 Interim Declined in effectiveness 24/08/2016 Full Good 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. 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. (Regulation 13 (1)(a)(b)(2)(a)) 03/10/2018

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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. In particular, the standard in paragraph (1) requires the registered person to— 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. (Regulation 13 (1)(a)(b)(2)(c)(e)(h)) 03/10/2018

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must ensure that all employees undertake appropriate continuing professional development. (Regulation 33 (4)(a)) This is with specific reference to ensuring that all staff have received mandatory training and that staff are appropriately qualified. 03/10/2018

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Requirement Due date

The education standard is that children make measurable 03/10/2018 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC476289 4 progress towards achieving their educational potential and are helped to do so. In particular, the standard in paragraph (1) requires the registered person to ensure— that staff— maintain regular contact with each child’s education and training provider, including engaging with the provider and the placing authority to support the child’s education and training and to maximise the child’s achievement; help a child who is excluded from school, or who is of compulsory school age but not attending school, to access educational and training support throughout the period of exclusion or non-attendance and to return to school as soon as possible; help each child to attend education or training in accordance with the expectations in the child’s relevant plans. (Regulation 8 (1)(2)(vi)(viii)(x))

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Requirement Due date

Ensure that the registered person only employs an individual to work at the children’s home if the individual satisfies the requirements in paragraph 3. The requirements are that full and satisfactory information is available in relation to the individual in respect of each of the matters in Schedule 2. In particular, this is in relation to documentary evidence of any qualifications which the registered person considers relevant for the position. (Regulation 32(3)(d)) (Schedule 2 point 5) 03/10/2018

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Recommendations

 Ensure that staff are familiar with the home’s policies on record keeping and understand the importance of careful, objective and clear recording. (‘Guide to the children’s homes regulations including the quality standards’, page 62, paragraph 14.4)  Ensure that staff support children to be aware of and manage their own safety both inside and outside the home to the extent that any good parent would. Staff should help children to understand how to protect themselves, feel protected and be protected from significant harm. (‘Guide to the children’s homes regulations including the quality standards’, page 43, paragraph 9.9)

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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.

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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 5

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: Cambian, Waterfront, Hammersmith Embankment, Chancellors Road, London, Middlesex W6 9RU

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Inspector

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

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