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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The Cambian Group

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

Ofsted imposed a restriction of accommodation to prevent the admission of any further children to the home on 11 July 2018. Shortfalls in leadership and management resulted in weak monitoring of the care provided to children. Also, at that time, a high turnover of staff led to inconsistent care quality.

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This monitoring visit

Ofsted carried out a monitoring visit on 21 August 2018 and the relevant regulation about leadership was found to be met. It was noted that there was now a committed manager, who had made a very positive difference to the leadership of the home.

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This monitoring visit

This monitoring visit was carried out at the end of the term of the restriction notice. The purpose was to check the progress towards reducing staff turnover and providing consistently high-quality care. At this visit, the inspector found that there has been sufficient progress and that the outstanding requirement has been met. The restriction notice has ended. The organisation is now free to admit additional children.

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This monitoring visit

The children are now provided with good-quality care from consistent care givers. The staff team is settling down and there has been very little change since the last visit. Staff now feel confident in their role. There is no indication that any staff plan to leave.

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This monitoring visit

Staff feel well supported and are very confident in the home’s acting manager, who is currently going through the Ofsted registration process. The new manager Inspection report for children’s home – monitoring visit: SC476289 2 continues to confidently implement the required improvements. Some of the staff team are still relatively new. However, they are well supported and growing in confidence.

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This monitoring visit

The acting manager carefully considers how each shift should be staffed. There is always a more experienced staff member on duty, as well as support from the acting manager or the deputy manager. Management arrangements are now robust.

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This monitoring visit

Because staff are growing in confidence and working together well as a team, they are providing the consistency that the children need. As a result, children are having fewer incidents and are significantly safer than they were before.

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This monitoring visit

Children have made good progress since the last visit.

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This monitoring visit

The full inspection, which took place on 2 June 2018, identified further requirements and two recommendations. These were not checked 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 registered person must ensure that all employees undertake appropriate continuing professional development. (Regulation 33 (4)(a))

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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. 20/11/2018

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Requirement Due date

The education standard is that children make measurable progress towards achieving their educational potential and are helped to do so.

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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

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;

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Requirement Due date

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;

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Requirement Due date

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) 20/11/2018

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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. This is in particular relation to documentary evidence of any qualifications which the registered person considers relevant for the position. Regulation 32(3)(d). (Schedule 2 point 5) 20/11/2018 Inspection report for children’s home – monitoring visit: SC476289 4 *These requirements are subject to a compliance notice.

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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)

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Recommendations

 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.

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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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Inspectors

Caroline Brailsford, social care regulatory inspector Inspection report for children’s home – monitoring visit: SC476289 5 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 children looked after, safeguarding and child protection.

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Inspectors

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