Children's Home run by Bryn Melyn Care Limited in Shropshire

Inspection report children’s home: SC411142 1 SC411142 Registered provider: Bryn Melyn Care Limited Full inspection Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

The service is owned by a private company. The home is registered to accommodate one child. Children come to live at the home because of family or placement breakdowns. Some children have difficulties that make their situation very challenging or they choose not to live in a family setting at this time. Some children have experienced abuse. The manager of this home has been in post since May 2018. Her application to register as manager has been submitted to Ofsted. She is currently working to complete the level 5 diploma in leadership for health and social care and children and young people’s services residential management pathway.

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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: SC411142 2

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

19/06/2017 Full Good 21/02/2017 Interim Sustained effectiveness 04/10/2016 Full Good 23/02/2016 Interim Improved effectiveness Inspection report children’s home: SC411142 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 helps children aspire to fulfil their potential and promotes their welfare.

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Requirement Due date

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. (Regulation 13 (1)(a)(b)(2)(c))

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Requirement Due date

This specifically relates to the induction, probation and training of seniors, deputies and managers. 31/12/2018

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

The young person living at the home continues to make good progress. She has made significant progress in forming positive attachments and relationships with the staff who support her. They are proud of her achievements, growing self-esteem and increased life skills around the home.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

The young person has left school after exceeding many of her educational targets. Staff have helped her to research further educational courses, attend interviews and successfully start at college. They are currently further supporting her attendance by supervising her at all times.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff encourage the young person to develop her interests, social skills and independence through hobbies such as boxing, going to the gym and trampolining. Over the summer, she has been on a week’s caravan holiday. She has also helped to plan and enjoy day trips, for example to London to see the sights, to Blackpool to see the illuminations switched on and to Stourport to go to the funfair. Inspection report children’s home: SC411142 4

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

Staff have a good awareness of the young person’s needs. Staff sensitively support her to make informed decisions that help to reduce risks. For example, she engages in meaningful key-work sessions, which help her to learn how to keep herself safe and understand relationships.

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

Staff help the young person to understand and appropriately express her emotions. As a result, historical behaviours that resulted in self-harm, damage to property, incidents of going missing and emotional outbursts have significantly reduced.

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

The young person is very happy with the house and views it as her home. It is homely and welcoming, having recently been painted throughout and new carpets laid. It is personalised with photos and pictures painted by the young person. This means that the young person feels a strong sense of attachment to the home.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The young person is well supported by a small and dedicated staff team. The manager is clear that the consistency of this team has significantly helped this young person to achieve good outcomes. The manager is very carefully planning for some imminent staff changes. She is doing this in consultation with the young person.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The manager and deputy have a good understand of the strengths of this service, as well as the areas that need to develop. For example, they are currently looking at ways to improve staff attendance at team meetings. This is important as it provides staff with the opportunity to consult with the clinician attached to the service.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The organisation does not currently have inductions, probationary periods or mandatory training programmes that are specific to staff who are either new to management roles or new to management roles within this company to support them in their roles.

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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 Inspection report children’s home: SC411142 5 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: SC411142 6

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Children’s home details

Registered provider: Bryn Melyn Care Limited

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: Edward James House, Hadley, Telford TF1 6QJ

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Inspector

Dawn Bennett: social care inspector Inspection report children’s home: SC411142 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 looked after children, safeguarding and child protection.

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Inspector

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