Children's Home run by Blue Elephant Childcare Limited in Devon

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2609490 1

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Blue Elephant Childcare Limited

Monitoring visit Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

This home is registered to provide care for one young person. It is one of a small group of homes run by a private company.

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This monitoring visit

This visit was completed remotely given the restrictions on travel and contact during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. Following recent safeguarding notifications to Ofsted, and given the short time since registration, the visit established whether the staff team is keeping the young person safe. Video technology was used to see and speak to the young person who lives at the home, the registered manager and the staff.

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This monitoring visit

With the support of therapists and managers, staff have built up a strong and trusting relationship with the young person living at the home. This creates a nurturing environment and the young person is safer because of it.

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This monitoring visit

The manager and staff assess known risks well and have developed practical guidance that keeps the young person safe. During recent events, staff have responded calmly and quickly and managed risky situations well. The young person has been fully included in learning from these incidents.

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This monitoring visit

Staff are supported well through regular reflective supervision, mentoring and training. The registered manager ensures that less-experienced staff members benefit from extra support when incidents take place.

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This monitoring visit

Incident reports, regulation 44 visits and supervision notes are comprehensive and show thorough consideration of how safeguarding incidents could have been managed differently. However, they can lack challenge and clear actions for how to anticipate risk as well as respond to it. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2609490 2

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Recent inspection history

Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement Not previously inspected

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Recommendations

 The registered person should actively seek independent scrutiny of the home and make best use of information from independent and internal monitoring (including under regulations 44 and 45) to ensure continuous improvement. They should be skilled in anticipating difficulties and reviewing incidents, such as learning from disruptions and placement breakdowns. They 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)

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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 registration with Ofsted.

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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: Blue Elephant Childcare Limited

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: Unit 30, Chivenor Business Park, Barnstaple, Devon EX31 4AY

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Inspector

Steve Lowe, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2609490 3 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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Inspector

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