Children's Home run by Green View Young People Limited in Barnsley

Inspection report children's home: SC386057 1 SC386057 Registered provider:

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Full inspection Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

The home is operated by a private provider and provides a place to live for up to two children or young people who need preparation for living in a foster home.

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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

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

18/04/2018 Full Good 11/07/2017 Full Good 15/02/2017 Interim Sustained effectiveness 18/07/2016 Full Good Inspection report children's home: SC386057 2

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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, the 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 enjoyment and achievement standard is that children take part in and benefit from a variety of activities that meet their needs and develop and reflect their creative, cultural, intellectual, physical and social interests and skills. (Regulation 9(1)) In particular, the home should ensure that children have the opportunity to meet and engage with peers to improve their socialisation and promote their confidence. 30/09/2019

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Recommendations

Managers are responsible for proactively implementing lessons learned and sustaining good practice. (‘Guide to the children’s homes regulations including the quality standards’, page 55, paragraph 10.24) In particular, the home has in place a number of diverse management processes and these would be more effective if they were better integrated and aligned with care planning and could demonstrate their contribution to the progress of each child. Effective care planning and strong working relationships between the staff of the home and the placing authority are essential to the success of placements. (‘Guide to the children’s homes regulations including the quality standards’, page 59, paragraph 11.19) In particular, the home would benefit from using a model of care which is clearly understood by all staff. This would enable staff to articulate and demonstrate the point of each child’s progress in achieving their plan for fostering.

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Recommendations

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

The home provides nurturing, child-centred care for the single child currently living there. The child is placed alone due to staffing issues at the home and not because it is the child’s assessed need to be looked after with one-to-one support. Current circumstances have both positive and negative effects. The child is having significant adult contact on an individual basis and is responding well and making good progress. However, they spend considerable amounts of time in the company of trained adults, and their identified needs are not so profound as to require this. The home should seek, with greater urgency, opportunities for the child to socialise with peers. This would promote greater confidence. Significant progress has been made in reducing negative behaviours and this is because staff have responded highly positively in a nurturing way to the child’s assessed needs. The child is settled and told inspectors that he is happy living at the home.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

The child is attending mainstream school regularly and achieving well. This is testament to the high standard of personal care that the child is receiving. Given the home’s successful track record in preparing children for foster care, the child’s social worker says that confidence is high that the care plan for permanence through long-term fostering will be fulfilled. The home is offering a high level of stability and consistency to promote this plan. However, to avoid drift the plan would benefit from clearer milestones and a deadline for delivery.

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

The single child currently living in the home does not present safeguarding issues, so these have reduced to zero. There have been no missing episodes and the child is not at risk of criminal exploitation. There have been no safeguarding alerts, and the home has not come to the attention of the local authority’s designated officer. The child has not been restrained. Sanctions are minimal and appropriate to the age of the child. Staff were proactive in ending incidents of bullying at school. Overall, the home offers a safe and secure environment, and this has led to the child settling and behaving well. Inspection report children's home: SC386057 4

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Management of the home is currently somewhat disrupted due to unavoidable personal circumstances, and the home’s committed staff are making a good job of rallying round and ensuring continuity. The home has a single child in placement to support minimal disruption. As a result, there are no evident adverse effects on the home’s standards of care on a day-to-day basis. Recent recruitment has further strengthened the dedicated staff who work together in a co-ordinated manner to offer the child important stability in his life. Staff are offered regular supervision, including group supervision, and appraisal. A comprehensive induction package ensures that new starters become quickly proficient in caring for children. This is important, as staff are currently often lone working. Staff are well trained and able to offer children in their care a high level of attention and support on a day-to-day basis. As a result, the child says that he feels well supported by

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

staff in developing his self-care skills. Independent visits take place under Regulation 44. Some of the independent visitor’s suggestions, such as placing photos around the home to further personalise its homely physical environment, are taken up by receptive managers who are keen to continuously develop the level of care on offer at the home. However, the various tools and processes used by management are not aligned to support a clear understanding of the managers’ role in supporting the child’s progress. The tools and processes would benefit from being streamlined and structured in a way that made it clearer what their purpose is in delivering plans for the child.

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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: SC386057 5

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Inspector

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