Children's home run by All Round Care Limited

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2575432 1

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All Round Care Ltd

Monitoring visit Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

This home is operated by a private company. It is registered to provide care and accommodation for one young person irrespective of gender. The home specialises in caring for young people who have been or who are experiencing emotional and behavioural difficulties.

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This monitoring visit

This children’s home registered on 1 May 2020 and has not had a full inspection to date.

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This monitoring visit

This urgent on-site inspection took place in response to a notification received by Ofsted that indicated potential concerns about staff actions in response to a serious incident of the young person going missing from care and being at risk of sexual exploitation.

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This monitoring visit

No widespread safeguarding concerns were found during the visit. The manager and staff understand the young person’s vulnerabilities and have worked with the appropriate agencies to manage incidents of the young person going missing from care. Trusting relationships are gradually developing between the staff and the young person. Positive rewards and incentives, direct work to explore safety, alongside a full activity planner have had some success with reducing missing-from- care incidents.

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This monitoring visit

The small staff team remains stable and the members of the team have worked together to meet the needs of the young person. They have received training in safeguarding and child sexual exploitation. Further multi-agency action plans are in place to manage the risk of the young person going missing from care and the risk of sexual exploitation. This includes direct work with the young person from the local Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2575432 2 authority child exploitation service, and the provider has increased the staffing levels and introduced waking night staff. Risk assessments and management plans are in place. However, they do not detail the timescale for reporting a young person who has gone missing from care to the police, or the immediate reporting to the police if there is a significant increase in known risk factors. Plans do not identify information about the factors that may

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This monitoring visit

place a young person at risk of child sexual exploitation, such as alcohol misuse, missing from care, friends who are victims, or include appropriate measures to mitigate these risks.

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This monitoring visit

Staff did not take immediate action to report the young person as missing from care to the police, despite increasing concerns in the young person’s behaviour. The manager and staff did search the area and had contact with the young person during the incident, but this action was not effective and did not persuade the young person to return home. This had implications for the young person’s safety.

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This monitoring visit

The notification under regulation 40 was received by Ofsted. However, this was categorised incorrectly by the manager. She fully accepts this error. The manager is currently undertaking a review of the placement and the incidents to identify possible weaknesses in practice and to learn and improve practice going forward.

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Recent inspection history

Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement The home has not yet had an inspection. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2575432 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 protection of children standard is that children are protected from harm and enabled to keep themselves safe.

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Requirement Due date

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

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assess whether each child is at risk of harm, considering information in the child’s relevant plans, and, if necessary, make arrangements to reduce the risk of any harm to the child;

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Requirement Due date

take effective action whenever there is a serious concern about a child’s welfare.

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Requirement Due date

In particular, plans must identify all potential risk indicators, mitigating measures, and the steps that staff must take in managing and responding to children going missing from care and at risk of sexual exploitation. 17/09/2020

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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. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2575432 4

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: 6 Renwick Square, Ashton-In-Makerfield, Wigan, Lancashire WN4 9NF

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Inspector

Caroline Jones, social care inspector Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2575432 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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