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

This 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, there is no child living in the home.

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

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This monitoring visit

On 8 December 2020, a further monitoring visit took place 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

A further monitoring visit took place in January 2021, to review the urgent notice. Limited progress had been made and, following the inspection, five requirements were reissued and a second urgent notice to vary conditions of registration from three to one was issued. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2494881 2 The purpose of this monitoring visit on 1 March 2021 was to review the urgent notice to vary conditions of registration. Since the January 2021 visit, another member of staff has resigned and left the home. The team of staff consists of three support workers, all of whom remain redeployed at another home in the company.

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This monitoring visit

Both the registered manager and responsible individual told the inspector that they are not in a position for children to move into the home.

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This monitoring visit

Four of the five requirements were either not met or Ofsted was unable to assess the provider’s progress in meeting them as there is not a child living in the home.

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This monitoring visit

Following this visit, four requirements were reissued and the urgent variation to the condition of registration remained in place.

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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 admission and that the registered person ensures that all staff follow children’s care plans. 14 April 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 14 April 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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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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how appropriate behaviour is to be promoted in the children’s home; and

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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. 14 April 2021

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

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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— is instigated; or concludes (in which case, the notification must include the 14 April 2021 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2494881 5 outcome of the child protection enquiry); or 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 notifiable events in a timely manner.

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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: 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 6 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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