Children's Home run by HAVEN CARE GROUP LIMITED in Staffordshire

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC474179 1 SC474179

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Haven Care Group

Monitoring visit Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

This privately owned home is registered to provide care for up to four children aged eight to 18 years old who have social and/or emotional difficulties.

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Information about this children’s home

The manager of the home is yet to be registered with Ofsted.

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This monitoring visit

At the interim inspection, Ofsted judged that the home had declined in effectiveness.

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This monitoring visit

Ofsted found that the provider had not maintained safe recruitment procedures to ensure that only suitable adults work with children. The provider had not carried out essential recruitment checks to help them to determine a person’s fitness to work with children.

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This monitoring visit

As a result of this failure, Ofsted issued a compliance notice in respect of regulation 32 of the Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015.

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This monitoring visit

On 11 November 2019, Ofsted conducted a monitoring visit to the provider’s head office. The inspector found that the provider has taken action to meet the compliance notice.

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This monitoring visit

Training, policy, procedure and practice in safe recruitment have been improved. The provider is no longer employing any disqualified person and is now carrying out all the required recruitment checks to help them to determine someone’s suitability to work with children. This demonstrates that the provider now has regard for legislation designed to protect vulnerable children. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC474179 2

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Recent inspection history

Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

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Recent inspection history

23/05/2019 22/05/2019 Full Full Declined in effectiveness Good 14/08/2018 Full Requires improvement to be good 14/11/2017 Full Good 12/01/2017 Interim Sustained effectiveness Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC474179 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 quality and purpose of care standard is that children receive care from staff who–

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understand the children’s home’s overall aims and the outcomes it seeks to achieve for children;

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use this understanding to deliver care that meets children’s needs and supports them to fulfil their potential.

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In particular, the standard in paragraph (1) requires the registered person to–

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ensure that the premises used for the purposes of the home are designed and furnished so as to–

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enable each child to participate in the daily life of the home. (Regulation 6(2)(c)(i)(ii)) 18/12/2019

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The protection of children standard is that children are protected from harm and enabled to keep themselves safe.

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In particular, the standard in paragraph (1) requires the registered person to ensure–

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have the skills to identify and act upon signs that a child is at risk of harm;

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understand the roles and responsibilities in relation to protecting children that are assigned to them by the registered person;

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take effective action whenever there is a serious concern about a child’s welfare; and 18/12/2019 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC474179 4 are familiar with, and act in accordance with, the home’s child protection policies. (Regulation 12(1)(2)(a)(iii)(v)(vi)(vii)) Schedule 4 sets out the other information that the registered person must keep in relation to a children’s home.

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Requirement Due date

maintain in the home the records in Schedule 4. (Regulation 37(1)(2)(a)) 18/12/2019

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Recommendations

 Staff should be familiar with the home’s policies on record keeping and understand the importance of careful, objective, and clear recording. Staff should record information on individual children in a non-stigmatising way that distinguishes between fact, opinion and third-party information. Information about the child must always be recorded in a way that will be helpful to the child. (‘Guide to the children’s homes regulations including the quality standards’, page 62, paragraph 14.4)

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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: Haven Care Group, First Floor, Unit 3 Barberry, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire DE14 2UE

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Inspector

Christy Wannop, social care inspector Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC474179 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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