Children's home run by Wrottesley Care Limited

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2494881 1

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Wrottesley Care Limited

Monitoring visit 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 company and is registered to provide care and accommodation for one child who may have social and/or emotional difficulties. Currently, a child is not living in the home.

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Information about this children’s home

The registered manager has been in post since July 2020.

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This monitoring visit

The home was judged to require improvement to be good at the full inspection in June 2019. The home was judged to have declined in effectiveness at the interim inspection in November 2019.

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This monitoring visit

An assurance visit took place on 28 and 29 September 2020. At this visit, widespread and serious concerns in relation to the care and protection of children and the leadership and management of the home were identified. The home’s registration was suspended on 30 September 2020 and two compliance notices were issued.

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This monitoring visit

A monitoring visit took place in November 2020, where the compliance notices were considered met. However, as improvements were in their infancy and staff recruitment was ongoing, Ofsted imposed an urgent notice to vary the conditions of registration of the home to care for one child on 5 November 2020.

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This monitoring visit

A monitoring visit took place on 8 December 2020, to review the urgent notice. Limited progress had been made, with six of the nine requirements issued in September 2020 being reissued. The urgent variation to conditions of registration remained in place.

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This monitoring visit

The purpose of this visit was to review the urgent notice to vary conditions of registration. This visit was completed remotely due to national restrictions in place Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2494881 2 because of COVID-19 (coronavirus). The inspector interviewed the registered manager and the responsible individual and reviewed documents provided.

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This monitoring visit

No children have lived in the home since the suspension of registration was lifted in November 2020, and limited progress has been made.

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This monitoring visit

The inspector found that five of the six requirements were either not met or Ofsted was unable to assess the provider’s progress in meeting them as there is no child living at the home.

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This monitoring visit

The responsible individual and the registered manager have reviewed existing paperwork and introduced additional paperwork relating to their care of children. As no child has moved into the home, these were blank. Therefore, it was not possible to see if this additional paperwork would have a positive impact on the care provided to children. In addition, some of the paperwork was poorly written with spelling errors and one document referred to another children’s home provider.

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This monitoring visit

Since the last monitoring inspection, the deputy manager has resigned and left the home. The senior support worker has resigned and is working his notice. This leaves the manager and four support workers in post. Three of these support workers remain out of the time frames for obtaining their level 3 qualification in residential childcare. Two of these support workers are currently on probation. The managers told the inspector that four members of support staff have been redeployed to work in another home in the company.

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This monitoring visit

Both the responsible individual and registered manager agree that currently there are not enough staff for any child to move into the home.

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This monitoring visit

Following this inspection, five requirements were reissued. A second urgent notice to vary conditions of registration from three to one was also issued.

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Recent inspection history

Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement 01/11/2019 Interim Declined in effectiveness 03/06/2019 Full Requires improvement to be good Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2494881 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 care planning standard is that children—

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Requirement Due date

receive effectively planned care in or through the children’s home; and

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Requirement Due date

have a positive experience of arriving at or moving on from the home.

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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

that each child’s relevant plans are followed. (Regulation 14 (1)(a)(b) (2)(c))

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Requirement Due date

This specifically relates to the need for all children to receive well-planned care from the point of moving in and that the registered person ensures that all staff follow children’s care plans. 1 March 2021

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Requirement Due date

For the purposes of paragraph (3)(b), an individual who works in the home in a care role has the appropriate qualification if, by the relevant date, the individual has attained—

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Requirement Due date

the Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare (England) ("the Level 3 Diploma"); or

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Requirement Due date

a qualification which the registered person considers to be equivalent to the Level 3 Diploma.

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Requirement Due date

in the case of an individual who starts working in a care role in a home after 1st April 2014, the date which falls 2 years after the date on which the individual started working in a care role in a home; or 1 March 2021 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2494881 4 in the case of an individual who was working in a care role in a home on 1st April 2014, 1st April 2016.

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Requirement Due date

The registered person may defer the relevant date if the individual—

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Requirement Due date

does not work, or has not worked, in a care role in a home for a prolonged period; or

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Requirement Due date

works, or has worked, in a care role in a home on a part- time basis. (Regulation 32 (4)(a)(b) (5)(a)(b) (6)(a)(b))

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Requirement Due date

This specifically relates to ensuring that all staff complete level 3 training within the required time frames.

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must prepare and implement a policy ("the behaviour management policy") which sets out—

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Requirement Due date

how appropriate behaviour is to be promoted in the children’s home; and

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Requirement Due date

the measures of control, discipline and restraint which may be used in relation to children in the home.

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must keep the behaviour management policy under review and, where appropriate, revise it. (Regulation 35 (1)(a)(b) (2))

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Requirement Due date

This specifically relates to the provider ensuring that the registered person has sufficient oversight of all physical intervention paperwork. 1 March 2021

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must notify HMCI and each other relevant person without delay if—

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a child is involved in or subject to, or is suspected of being involved in or subject to, sexual exploitation;

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Requirement Due date

an incident requiring police involvement occurs in relation to a child which the registered person considers to be serious;

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Requirement Due date

there is an allegation of abuse against the home or a person working there;

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Requirement Due date

a child protection enquiry involving a child—

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Requirement Due date

is instigated; or 1 March 2021 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2494881 5 concludes (in which case, the notification must include the outcome of the child protection enquiry); or

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Requirement Due date

there is any other incident relating to a child which the registered person considers to be serious. (Regulation 40 (4)(a)(b)(c)(d)(i)(ii)(e))

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Requirement Due date

This specifically relates to the need for the registered person to notify Ofsted of all notifiable events in a timely manner.

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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

In order to complete a quality of care review the registered person must establish and maintain a system for monitoring, reviewing and evaluating—

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Requirement Due date

the quality of care provided for children;

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Requirement Due date

the feedback and opinions of children about the children’s home, its facilities and the quality of care they receive in it; and

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Requirement Due date

any actions that the registered person considers necessary in order to improve or maintain the quality of care provided for children. (Regulation 45 (1) (2)(a)(b)(c))

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Requirement Due date

This specifically relates to the provider ensuring that the registered person completes a review of the quality of care provided at least every six months. 4 March 2021

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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: 2494881 6

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Children’s home details

Registered provider: Wrottesley Care Limited

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: Office 28, 28 Cleveland Street, Wolverhampton WV1 3HT

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Inspector

Debbie Holder, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2494881 7 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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Inspector

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