Children's Home run by Your Chapter Holdings Limited in Lancashire

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1240753 1 Registered provider: Your Chapter Holdings Limited

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Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

This privately run children’s home is registered to provide care for up to four children. The provider states in their statement of purpose that they provide care for children who have been involved in gangs or in persistent and serious offending behaviour, and children at risk of or involved with radicalisation.

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Information about this children’s home

There is currently no registered manager in post.

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This monitoring visit

Following an inadequate judgement made after the inspection on 28 and 29 July 2020, senior leaders made the decision to close the home. This was to provide an opportunity to review care practices, recruit a stable staff team and ensure that managers and staff attend relevant training sessions to understand their roles and responsibilities in protecting children.

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This monitoring visit

The provider contacted Ofsted to indicate that they were ready to reopen. This monitoring visit took place to review the actions taken by the provider since the previous visit.

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This monitoring visit

A new manager has been recruited and has applied to register. There is a new team of staff in place who have attended extensive training to ensure that they understand the expectations of their roles and are clear about their roles and responsibilities in safeguarding and protecting children.

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This monitoring visit

The home environment has improved. The home is warm and welcoming, with brightly coloured soft furnishings and pictures throughout. Children’s bedrooms have been decorated and are ready for children to move into.

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This monitoring visit

Based on the outcomes of the visit, the home is ready to reopen and the request to vary the conditions of registration is agreed. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1240753 2 The previous requirements were not considered at this visit but will be reviewed at the next full inspection. All are restated. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1240753 3

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

28/07/2021 Full Inadequate 04/06/2019 Full Good 12/06/2018 Full Requires improvement to be good 30/05/2017 Full Good Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1240753 4

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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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Requirement Due date

assess whether each child is at risk of harm, taking into account 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

have the skills to identify and act upon signs that a child is at risk of harm;

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Requirement Due date

understand the roles and responsibilities in relation to protecting children that are assigned to them by the registered person;

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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

that the home’s day-to-day care is arranged and delivered so as to keep each child safe and to protect each child effectively from harm; and

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that the premises used for the purpose of the home are designed, furnished and maintained so as to protect each child from avoidable hazards to the child’s health. (Regulation 12 (1) (2)(a)(i)(iii)(v)(vi)(b)(d))

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Requirement Due date

The manager needs to ensure that children’s risk assessments are up to date and include all known risks, with strategies included to reduce risk. 14 September Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1240753 5 The leadership and management standard is that the registered person enables, inspires and leads a culture in relation to the children’s home that—

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Requirement Due date

helps children aspire to fulfil their potential; and

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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

lead and manage the home in a way that is consistent with the approach and ethos, and delivers the outcomes, set out in the home’s statement of purpose;

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Requirement Due date

ensure that staff work as a team where appropriate;

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Requirement Due date

ensure that staff have the experience, qualifications and skills to meet the needs of each child;

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Requirement Due date

ensure that the home has sufficient staff to provide care for each child; and

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understand the impact that the quality of care provided in the home is having on the progress and experiences of each child and use this understanding to inform the development of the quality of care provided in the home. (Regulation 13 (1) (2)(a)(b)(c)(d)(f)) 19 October 2021

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Requirement Due date

ensure that each employee completes an appropriate induction. (Regulation 33 (1)(a)) 14 September

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The registered person must maintain records ("case records") for each child which—

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include information and documents listed in Schedule 3 in relation to each child;

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are signed and dated by the author of each entry. (Regulation 36 (1)(a)(b)(c)) 14 September Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1240753 6 The registered person must complete a review of the quality of care provided for children ("a quality of care review") at least 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

After completing a quality of care review, the registered person must produce a written report about the quality of care review and the actions which the registered person intends to take as a result of the quality of care review ("the quality of care review report")

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Requirement Due date

supply to HMCI a copy of the quality of care review report within 28 days of the date on which the quality of care review is competed; and

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Requirement Due date

make a copy of the quality of care review report available on request to a placing authority, if the placing authority is not the parent of a child accommodated in the home.

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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. (Regulation 45 (1) (2)(a)(b)(c) (3) (4)(a)(b) (5)) 14 September

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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: 1240753 7

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Children’s home details

Registered provider: Your Chapter Holdings Limited

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: Hobart House, Oakwater Avenue, Cheadle Royal Business Park, Cheadle SK8 3SR

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Inspector

Catherine Fargin, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1240753 8 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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