Children's Home run by Cambian Childcare Limited in Bradford

Inspection report children’s home: SC424141 1 SC424141 Registered provider: Cambian Childcare Ltd

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Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

This children’s home is run by a private company which is a national provider of residential care and accommodation for children and young people. It is registered to care for up to six children or young people who have emotional, behavioural and social difficulties. The manager has been registered since July 2018.

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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

Overall judgement at last inspection: good

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good

Enforcement action since last inspection: none Inspection report children’s home: SC424141 2

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

09/01/2018 Full Good 22/03/2017 Interim Improved effectiveness 09/02/2017 Full Good 10/02/2016 Interim Improved effectiveness Inspection report children’s home: SC424141 3

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Recommendations

 Regulations 35-39 detail the records that must be kept in children’s homes. All children’s case records (regulation 36) must be kept up to date and stored securely whilst they remain in the home. Case records must be kept up to date and signed and dated by the author of each entry. (‘Guide to the children’s homes regulations including the quality standards’, page 62, paragraph 14.3) In particular, to ensure that all risk assessments are kept up to date and reviewed; and that the manager completes an audit of medication in line with the company’s policy.  The registered person should have a workforce plan which can fulfil the workforce related requirements of regulation 16, schedule 1 (paragraphs 19 and 20). The plan should be updated to include any new training and qualifications completed by staff while working at the home, and used to record the ongoing training and continuing professional development needs of staff – including the

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Recommendations

home’s manager. (‘Guide to the children’s homes regulations including the quality standards’, page 53, paragraph 10.8) In particular, identifying and undertaking training that is specific to the needs of the children and young people who are admitted to the home. For example, training relating to understanding gang culture.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

The children and young people make consistent and positive progress in respect of their physical, educational and emotional well-being. Staff prioritise and instil the value of education from the time children and young people move into the home. This includes finding the best school or college, which helps to re-engage those who have had time out of education. Children’s and young people’s attendance and engagement in education are good. This is due to staff promoting and supporting their learning and development. Staff’s encouragement to one young person to attend extra tuition and read more resulted in a significant rise in their chronological reading age.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

The children and young people receive good, warm and positive care. This helps them to allow staff to reparent and nurture them. Staff promote eating together as a natural way of developing relationships. This time together also helps any new residents settle and feel a part of the home quickly. The children and young people enjoy spending time with staff who creatively use these opportunities to develop independence skills, such as doing household cleaning tasks and learning to cook together.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff provide the children and young people with high levels of support and understand their needs. The individualised care plans drive the staff’s key-worker sessions to Inspection report children’s home: SC424141 4 address relevant topics. Staff provide guidance and understanding to children and young people about issues that affect them. Positive role-modelling reinforces these sessions, for example by teaching children and young people about safe relationships.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Spending time together has helped children and young people to form trusting relationships with the manager and staff. This helps children and young people feel safe enough to begin to express their feelings and receptive to engaging with therapy. The company’s clinical psychologist provides an overview, giving staff a good understanding of children’s and young people’s emotional needs.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

The children and young people have positive day-to-day experiences of participating in a range of activities individually and/or as a group. The current residents have a keen interest in music and by playing instruments together this helps develop peer relationships. The relaxed atmosphere in the home demonstrated warm and nurturing relationships, with the house full of chatter and laughter when the children and young people returned from school.

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

The manager considers new referrals with the needs of children and young people and the potential impact on group dynamics at the forefront. Careful deliberation and robust care planning help to create a positive admission experience for the new arrival and ensure minimal impact on the existing residents.

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

Staff are committed to keeping young people safe, while at the same time allowing them to learn from their own mistakes as part of growing up and becoming more independent. Missing from home episodes and associated risks from sexual exploitation and gang influence have reduced. Effective partnerships with the police offer further safeguards.

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

Children and young people benefit from consistent care, strong boundaries and routines. Staff sensitively and firmly promote clear expectations and daily structure to help children and young people to feel safe and secure. This leads to reduced levels of challenging behaviour. There is no criminal damage within the home because children and young people take ownership of and respect their surroundings. Staff are excellent at defusing aggressive outbursts with children and young people. Consequently, physical interventions are rarely used.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The manager was registered with the regulator in July 2018. She is working towards obtaining the necessary leadership and management qualification to enhance her development.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Good recruitment practice ensures that thorough checks and balances are carried out on new staff members, who benefit from a thorough induction and training programme in preparation for working at the home. New staff talk of feeling part of the team and of being supported by the manager and their colleagues. The diverse staff team provides the children and young people with good role-models. Inspection report children’s home: SC424141 5 The manager knows the children and young people well and observes staff interaction with them. Her hands-on approach in supporting children and young people enables staff to mirror her responses. Monthly visits by a manager from another of the company’s homes provide external scrutiny. Management team meetings provide a forum for the senior managers to discuss staff practice. Reflective team meetings, where children and young people are at the focus of discussions, ensure that the staff team is

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The manager is robust in challenging professionals, particularly social workers, to ensure that children and young people’s needs are a priority. The requirements made at the last inspection relating to the recruitment, employment and training of staff are met. Staff still need to receive training relating to gang culture. This will strengthen the core staff team’s knowledge of the links to criminal and sexual exploitation.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Children’s records are not always up to date. This can detract from the good work undertaken by the staff. Management audits on the administration of medicine are not always conducted in line with the company policy. These shortfalls do not detract from the good-quality care offered by staff.

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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: SC424141 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: Waterfront, Hammersmith Embankment, Chancellors Road, London, Middlesex W6 9RU

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Children’s home details

Responsible individual: Susan Fitzsimmons

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Inspector

Tina Ruffles, social care inspector Inspection report children’s home: SC424141 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 children looked after, safeguarding and child protection.

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