Children's Home run by Bramley Care Limited in West Sussex

Inspection report children's home: SC484133 1 SC484133 Registered provider: Bramley Care Limited Full inspection Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

This children’s home can accommodate up to six children who have a history of exhibiting harmful sexual behaviours and who require specialist support. Every child must agree to engage with the home’s therapeutic services in order for them to come here.

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Information about this children’s home

The manager of the home was registered with Ofsted in February 2017.

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Information about this children’s home

Due to COVID-19 (coronavirus), at the request of the Secretary of State, we suspended all routine inspections of social care providers on 17 March 2020.

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Overall experiences and progress of

children and young people, taking into account

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good

How well children and young people are helped and protected good

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good

The effectiveness of leaders and managers good

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good

The children’s home provides effective services that meet the requirements for good.

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good

Date of last inspection: 12 November 2019

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good

Overall judgement at last inspection: good

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good

Enforcement action since last inspection: none Inspection report children's home: SC484133 2

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

12/11/2019 Full Good 17/09/2018 Full Outstanding 05/09/2017 Full Good 15/02/2017 Interim Sustained effectiveness Inspection report children's home: SC484133 3

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Children experience well-planned care from staff who are committed to building and maintaining positive relationships with them. This makes children feel secure and cared for, which enables them to make good progress. Meaningful partnership work with the therapy and education teams provides an effective wraparound service for children.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Children are fully supported to engage and make progress in education. Once children have left school, they are supported to choose the college course which gives them the greatest chance of success. They can also continue to access the organisation’s school if they need support with college coursework or wish to retake exams to improve their grades. This flexible approach improves children’s life chances.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff work therapeutically with children. They hold children’s individual experiences in mind. This means that children benefit from a nurturing approach which fully considers and meets their individual needs. One young person, who is now over the age of 18, is currently waiting for some news which could potentially be life changing. Sensitive support from staff is helping the young person manage their emotions. As a result, the young person has been able to stay focused on, and excel in, their furniture-making course at college. Nurturing care from staff helps children learn how to talk to adults about how they are feeling and accept help when they need it.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Children’s independence is fully promoted and staff are committed to preparing children to live more independently in the future. When one child arrived at the home, they were unable to carry out any practical tasks for themselves. The child said the support they had received from staff was ‘amazing’. Staff spoke with pride when they described the progress the child had made. The careful support children receive gives them the confidence to achieve goals which are important to them.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Children make excellent progress in relation to their emotional, social and psychological well-being. However, this progress is not routinely documented in records of achievement. As a result, there are missed opportunities for celebrating success. The manager is aware of this and is seeking to address it by adapting the organisation’s progress tracking document.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Working in partnership with people who are important to children is given high priority. One parent told the inspector that they, ‘can’t sing the staff’s praises enough. They go above and beyond to support the young people in their care.’ They said that the staff had helped them to rebuild their relationship with their child. An inclusive approach supports children to maintain positive relationships with their families. Inspection report children's home: SC484133 4

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

Children’s safety and well-being is a priority. Managers encourage staff to respond to behavioural incidents in a way that promotes learning for the child. There is a culture of openness which helps children to discuss mistakes and to think empathetically about the impact of their actions on others. The use of physical intervention is very rare. Positive behaviour is noticed and rewarded. This approach supports children to stay safe and to learn socially acceptable behaviour. This demonstrates the managers’ commitment to ensuring that children become increasingly safe while having a positive lived experience of care.

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

Children are given opportunities to start accessing the community. A clear programme allows children to take manageable steps towards an increasing amount of independence. Managers and therapists have oversight of decisions about whether children are ready to move on to the next stage. Children are fully involved in the process and are encouraged to talk about what they have done to keep themselves safe. If something has not gone to plan, they are helped to think about how they could avoid a repeat of the same situation. Empowering children to have a view about how their own risks are managed contributes to their protection and sense of security.

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

Before a child moves into the home, a risk assessment is completed to consider the child’s needs alongside those of children who already live there. For those children new to the organisation, managers seek detailed information from the child’s placing authority. Sometimes children move to this home from one of the organisation’s other homes, which means that they are already familiar with the other children and staff. This enables managers to undertake a well-informed assessment of the likely impact of the child moving into the home. Careful planning and matching means that unplanned endings are rare.

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

The organisation has adopted a placement plan format which incorporates a behaviour management plan and behavioural risk assessments. Managers of this home have ensured that the plans are individualised and clearly describe what staff need to do to keep children safe.

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

Safe recruitment practices are understood and implemented by the manager and staff responsible for this area of practice. Only agency staff who are familiar with the home are employed to work here, and checks are carried out to ensure that the agency has fulfilled its responsibility to make sure staff are safe to work with children. This reduces the potential for unsuitable adults to be employed at the home.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The manager is passionate in her efforts to be a trusted figure for the children, and she has high aspirations for what children can achieve. This makes the manager a good role model for the staff. Inspection report children's home: SC484133 5 The manager is committed to ensuring that children have a say in decisions which affect them. There has recently been an organisation-wide review of the reward system, which involved children from all the homes. The children living in this home commented that some of the incentives were not applicable to them. The manager made changes to the reward system to make it bespoke for this home. Knowing they can effect change is empowering for children.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The opinions of children’s parents and other people important to them have not been ascertained as part of internal monitoring arrangements. As a result, a less informed view informs the development of the quality of care provided to children.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Staff receive regular supervision and good-quality training that is relevant to the needs of the children that they are looking after. However, supervision records do not fully demonstrate that staff are supported to resolve practice-related issues. Children are being cared for by knowledgeable, well-informed staff, but this is undermined by shortfalls in recording of staff supervision.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The manager promotes an inclusive culture and positively promotes equality and diversity. This helps all children to feel safe and valued, and enables them to explore their developing sense of identity.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The registered manager is now notifying Ofsted as required when serious incidents occur. This enables the regulator to ensure that there has been a robust response. Inspection report children's home: SC484133 6

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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

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.

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Requirement Due date

The system referred to in paragraph (2) must provide for ascertaining and considering the opinions of children, their parents, placing authorities and staff.

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Requirement Due date

(Regulation 45 (1) (2)(a)(b)(c) (5)) 31 October 2021

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Recommendations

 The registered person should ensure that the home’s staff recognise and celebrate the achievements of their children. (‘Guide to the children’s homes regulations including the quality standards’, page 31, paragraph 6.7)  The registered person should ensure that they have systems in place so that all staff receive supervision of their practice which allows them to reflect on their practice and the needs of the children assigned to their care. (‘Guide to the children’s homes regulations including the quality standards’, page 61, paragraph 13.2) Inspection report children's home: SC484133 7

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Information about this inspection

Inspectors have looked closely at the experiences and progress of children and young people, 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: SC484133 8

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Children’s home details

Registered provider: Bramley Care Limited

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: Nicholas House, Riverfront, Enfield EN1 3FG

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Inspector

Helen Simmons, Social Care Inspector Inspection report children's home: SC484133 9 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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