Children's home run by Cambian Childcare Limited in Stockport

Inspection report children’s home: SC476236 1 SC476236 Registered provider: Cambian Childcare Limited

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Full inspection Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

This home is owned by a private company. The home provides care for four children aged 11 to 18 years old who have experienced adverse childhood experiences that have led to associated trauma and presenting complex behaviours. The manager has been registered with Ofsted since 16 February 2019. She is currently completing a level 5 qualification in leadership and management for residential childcare. Since the last inspection, three new children have moved into the home.

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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

Date of last inspection: 12 September 2018

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good

Overall judgement at last inspection: requires improvement to be good

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good

Enforcement action since last inspection: none Inspection report children’s home: SC476236 2

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

12/09/2018 Full Requires improvement to be good 06/02/2018 Full Good 24/01/2017 Interim Improved effectiveness 18/10/2016 Full Good Inspection report children’s home: SC476236 3

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Recommendations

 As set out in regulations 31-33, the registered person is responsible for maintaining good employment practice. They must ensure that recruitment, supervision and performance management of staff safeguards children and minimises potential risks to them. (‘Guide to the children’s homes regulations including the quality standards’, page 61, paragraph 13.1) This is with reference to ensuring that staff receive frequent supervision in line with the organisation’s policy on supervision.  The registered person should support staff to be ambitious for every child in the home and to gain skills and experience that enable them to actively support each child to achieve their potential. To ensure that staff understand and can meet each child’s needs, in line with their responsibilities, the registered person themselves will need to have a high level of understanding of the needs of the children in their care. (‘Guide to the children’s homes regulations including the

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Recommendations

quality standards’, page 52, paragraph 10.5) This is with reference to ensuring that staff receive training to meet children’s diverse needs.  As set out in regulations 31-33, the registered person is responsible for maintaining good employment practice. They must ensure that recruitment, supervision and performance management of staff safeguards children and minimises potential risks to them. (‘Guide to the children’s homes regulations including the quality standards’, page 61, paragraph 13.1) This is with reference to managers ensuring that all verifications of staff references are carried out prior to the start of employment.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff know the children well and are nurturing and responsive in meeting each child’s individual needs. By staff using consistent, positive interactions, children develop warm and trusting relationships. This positive relationship helps the children to feel listened to, cared for and highly valued. Staff support children to maintain healthy lifestyles. For example, staff encourage children to stop smoking and help them to understand the dangers of drinking alcohol. As a result, children’s physical well-being improves. Children participate in a range of activities that are aimed at providing them with opportunities to relax and to enjoy their leisure time, and at the same time promotes their independence and social skills. Staff prioritise children’s education. Consequently, children regularly attend school and Inspection report children’s home: SC476236 4 make good progress in their academic learning.

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

Staff are aware of children’s vulnerabilities and are vigilant in their practice to help to keep children safe. Managers take swift action when concerns about staff practice arise. Consequently, children are protected from potential harm. Staff ensure that children receive high levels of supervision and support. As a result, there are very few incidents of children going missing from the home. Staff ensure that each child has an individual risk assessment that is a working document that staff regularly review and update. This enables the positive and dynamic management of children’s presenting risks to be safely managed. Staff receive training on how to safeguard children. This includes understanding children’s vulnerabilities to the risk of child sexual exploitation. Managers and staff ensure that the home is maintained to a high standard and that repairs are reported promptly. This commitment means that children continue to live in a

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The registered manager is child focused and is ambitious to improve the quality of care. Managers and staff are passionate about the children and work hard to ensure that each child experiences positive outcomes. Staff feel motivated and well supported by their managers and provide excellent care and protection to children in their care. The registered manager is increasingly using her own self-evaluation to assess the quality of care provided to children. This includes consulting children’s placing local authority, and engaging children and staff in making key decisions. Although managers follow safe recruitment procedures, occasionally managers miss out some of the necessary verification checks. For example, managers do not always ensure that references have been verified before a member of staff has started to work at the home. This gap has the potential to compromise the process needed to help managers

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

to be assured that a new member of staff is suitable to work with children. New members of staff receive a comprehensive induction into the home. Although staff receive supervision, the frequency of these meetings is not always in line with the organisation’s policy. As a result, some members of staff do not have regular supervision to enable them to reflect on their care practice. Managers ensure that staff receive mandatory training. However, sometimes there is a delay in staff receiving training that is specific to children’s individual needs and training that reflects changes in practice. This delay leaves some staff without additional knowledge in caring for children’s diverse needs and means that staff are not familiar with terms such as county lines. Inspection report children’s home: SC476236 5

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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: SC476236 6

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Children’s home details

Registered provider: Cambian Childcare Limited

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: 4th Floor, Waterfront, Manbre Wharf, Manbre Road, Hammersmith, Middlesex W6 9RU

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Inspector

Debbie Bond, social care inspector Inspection report children’s home: SC476236 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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