Children's home run by Hull City Council in Kingston upon Hull, City of

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC040105 1 SC040105 Registered provider: Hull City Council

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Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

This home is run by the local authority and is registered to provide care for up to four children under short-break arrangements.

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Information about this children’s home

This visit was in response to a change to the statement of purpose to accommodate four children aged from 0 to 18 years old living in the home, full-time, on an emergency basis while alternative accommodation is found.

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Information about this children’s home

The manager registered with Ofsted in March 2018.

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This monitoring visit

Children benefit from positive relationships with staff. Staff ensure that language differences do not create a barrier and use various translation tools to ensure that the children’s voice is heard. As a result, children can share their views and feel that they are listened to.

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This monitoring visit

Staff support and encourage children to engage in structure and routine during the day, especially when formal education is not in place. The manager works well with schools and the virtual school to ensure that the plans in place are appropriate for the children. As a result, one child is now engaging more in school and the other children have a purpose to their day.

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This monitoring visit

Care plans and risk assessments for two of the children were of a high quality and clearly identified how to support them. This helps to safeguard the children and helps staff to work in a consistent way. However, two younger children do not have their own individual care plan. This prevents individualised care being provided and prevents progress for these two children being captured clearly or reviewed by the manager. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC040105 2 Staff do not have the formal training or knowledge to support children under the age of five. Some training has been arranged but has not yet taken place.

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This monitoring visit

Requirements and recommendations issued at the last full inspection have not all been reviewed and therefore are reissued. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC040105 3

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

07/04/2022 Full Good 26/10/2021 Full Requires improvement to be good 13/07/2021 Full Inadequate 22/10/2019 Full Requires improvement to be good Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC040105 4

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Statutory requirements

This section sets out the actions that the registered person 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 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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that the premises used for the purposes 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)(d))

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Requirement Due date

This refers to the establishment of effective systems to ensure that harmful items are not in general circulation.

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Requirement Due date

This requirement was made at the last inspection and is restated. 31 December 2022

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Requirement Due date

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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helps children aspire to fulfil their potential; and promotes their welfare.

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

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

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ensure that the home’s workforce provides continuity of care to 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)(a)(b) (2)(a)(c)(e)(f)) 31 December 2022 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC040105 5 In particular, ensure that staff have the training to meet the individual children’s needs and that children’s records support the manager to have oversight of children’s progress to enable the manager to make any improvements to the quality of care for children.

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Requirement Due date

The care planning standard is that children—

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

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

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

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

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Requirement Due date

In particular, ensure that all children have a care plan that identifies how to support them. 31 December 2022

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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 six months.

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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 completed. (Regulation 45 (1) (4)(a))

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Requirement Due date

This requirement was made at the last inspection and is restated. 31 December 2022 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC040105 6

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Recommendation

 The registered person should ensure that, just as in a family home, children should be able to access all shared areas of their home unless there are specific reasons why this would not meet a child’s needs. Limits on privacy and access may only be put in place to safeguard each child in the home (regulation 21(c)(i)). Any decisions to limit a child’s access to any area of the home and any modifications to the environment of the home must only be made where this is intended to safeguard the child’s welfare. All decisions should be informed by a rigorous assessment of that individual child’s needs, be properly recorded and be kept under regular review. This recommendation was made at the last inspection and is restated. (‘Guide to the Children’s Home Regulations, including the quality standards’, page 15, paragraph 3.10)

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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: SC040105 7

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: Kingston upon Hull City Council, The Guildhall, Alfred Gelder Street, Hull HU1 2AA

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Children’s home details

Registered manager: Louise Taylor-Deville

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Inspector

Debra Boldy, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC040105 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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