Children's home run by Cambian Childcare Limited in Hammersmith and Fulham

Inspection report children’s home: SC476271 1 SC476271 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 children’s home is run by a private organisation and offers care and accommodation for up to five children who have social and/or emotional difficulties. The manager is suitably qualified and has been in post since January 2014.

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Overall experiences and progress of

children and young people, taking into account

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outstanding

How well children and young people are helped and protected outstanding

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outstanding

The effectiveness of leaders and managers outstanding

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outstanding

The children’s home provides highly effective services that consistently exceed the standards of good. The actions of the children’s home contribute to significantly improved outcomes and positive experiences for children and young people who need help, protection and care.

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outstanding

Overall judgement at last inspection: outstanding

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outstanding

Enforcement action since last inspection: none Inspection report children’s home: SC476271 2

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

05/03/2019 Full Outstanding 30/01/2018 Full Outstanding 14/03/2017 Interim Sustained effectiveness 25/10/2016 Full Outstanding Inspection report children’s home: SC476271 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 complete a review of the quality of care provided for children (“a quality of care review”) at least once every 6 months.

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Requirement Due date

supply to HMCI a copy of the quality of care review report within 28 days of the date on which the quality of care review is completed.

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Requirement Due date

keep the statement of purpose under review and, where appropriate, revise it; and

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Requirement Due date

notify HMCI of any revisions and send HMCI a copy of the revised statement within 28 days of the revision.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: outstanding

Children make exceptional progress as a result of the individualised care that they receive from highly committed and passionate staff.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: outstanding

The staff work hard to make sure that the home is welcoming. Staff take every opportunity to take photographs of the children having fun, and ensure that these photographs are proudly displayed throughout the home.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: outstanding

Children enjoy a wide range of varied activities. These can include going on holiday, joining clubs, such as football and fencing, and being members of the local Air Cadets. As a result of these enhanced activities, children’s confidence and skills blossom. Inspection report children’s home: SC476271 4 The home’s support of children’s education is a strength. All children attend school daily. When children require additional assistance, the manager ensures that this support is made available. Daily routines include time for staff to help children with their school homework. This structured routine helps children to understand the importance of education.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: outstanding

The manager and staff also go ‘the extra mile’ to support children to stay in touch with their families. This helps children to sustain and enjoy important family relationships.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: outstanding

The excellent progress that children make during their time at the home plays an important part in children making successful moves into foster care.

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

The manager and staff are extremely skilled at identifying risks and triggers that may result in children harming themselves or others. This knowledge helps staff to devise highly effective risk assessments and behaviour management plans. These highlight children’s individual risks and provide staff with detailed strategies for how to reduce them. Consequently, staff manage risks exceptionally well and offer children the right support. This promotes children’s safety and protects them from harm.

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

Staff keep those children who are at risk of child sexual exploitation safe. They do this through close supervision of the children and by working in close partnership with other professionals. Children’s access to the internet is closely monitored to ensure that they remain protected from harm.

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

There are very few incidents and children rarely go missing from the home.

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

Staff help the children to understand their past experiences and to engage in key-work sessions. These sessions are led effectively by resourceful staff who use individualised worksheets and mapping tools to help each child develop an informed understanding of risks that they may face. This work is appropriately delivered to reflect each child’s age and understanding. This child-focused work successfully helps children to understand danger and to make safe decisions.

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

The manager oversees the recruitment of new members of staff. She ensures that only people who are safe to work with children are employed to work in the home.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: outstanding

The registered manager is a dedicated and child-focused practitioner. She leads a team of committed and skilled staff who work hard to ensure that children achieve their full potential. The manager makes excellent use of her monitoring and review systems to help her to closely assess each child’s level of progress from their starting point. This Inspection report children’s home: SC476271 5 means that the manager has an up-to-date understanding of the progress that each child has made.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: outstanding

The manager ensures that staff receive regular training opportunities. This includes providing access to research. The manager tests the staff’s knowledge and understanding by using quizzes and questionnaires during the regularly held team meetings. Consequently, staff gain extensive knowledge that they apply to their practice and care of children. As a result, the manager can gauge the extent of staff learning and evaluate how well it is used in the daily care of the children.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: outstanding

New members of staff receive a comprehensive induction into the home. This includes them shadowing more experienced staff before working on the rota. This helps new staff to build up their confidence and to begin to get to know the children.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: outstanding

The manager works closely with other professionals. This approach helps to ensure that all of those involved deliver and progress the children’s care plans consistently, and that the delivery of these plans is central to the work which is done with each individual child. This results in children feeling safe and secure knowing that everyone is working in their best interests.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: outstanding

The manager omitted to send Ofsted the most recent report regarding the quality of care provided by the home and the home’s updated statement of purpose. This means that Ofsted does not have an accurate understanding of the home between inspections.

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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: SC476271 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: Metropolitan House, 3 Darkes Lane, Potters Bar EN6 1AG

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Inspector

Debbie Bond, social care inspector Inspection report children’s home: SC476271 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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