Children's Home run by Catch22 Charity Limited in Sutton

Assurance inspection report for children’s home: 2660251 1 Registered provider: Catch22 Charity Limited

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Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

The home provides care for up to six children who may experience social and emotional difficulties.

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Information about this children’s home

The home and manager registered with Ofsted in February 2022.

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Information about this children’s home

Date of last inspection: 22 November 2022

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Information about this children’s home

Judgement at last inspection: requires improvement to be good

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Information about this children’s home

Enforcement action since last inspection: none

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Information about this inspection

At these inspections, the inspector evaluated:

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Information about this inspection

 the care of children  the safety of children  the effectiveness of leaders and managers. The inspector has looked closely at the experiences and progress of children, using the social care common inspection framework. This assurance 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’. Assurance inspection report for children’s home: 2660251 2

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Findings from the inspection

We did not identify any serious or widespread concerns in relation to the care or protection of children at this assurance inspection.

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The care of children

The children living at this home benefit from positive, enduring and stable relationships with staff who are passionate about their role in caring for children. Staff know the children well and support them to manage conflicts and difficulties by helping them develop appropriate strategies. The children spoke positively about the staff who care for them. They told the inspector that they feel safe in the home.

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The care of children

Children’s key workers support them to access specialist and universal services. This ensures comprehensive information-sharing with key professionals to inform plans for children. Children are supported to access activities outside of the home. Key workers also work positively with parents and others who are important to children to promote meaningful relationships.

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The care of children

Children’s education needs are a priority, and staff are persistent in their approach to securing education for children that best meets their needs. This includes advocating robustly with local education special educational needs and/or disabilities teams and escalating to senior leaders when appropriate education provision is not secured in a satisfactory timeframe.

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The care of children

Participation is a strength at this home. Children are encouraged to share their views, and this ensures that they influence and shape decisions about their home and care. Children understand their rights to complain, and low-level concerns are known as ‘grumbles’. These are recorded, and children are informed about the outcome. In the main, children are happy with the resolution.

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The care of children

The home is warm and homely and decorated to a good standard.

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The safety of children

Children benefit from individual risk assessments that are comprehensive and include proactive interventions that help staff to understand children’s triggers and approaches to reduce risk.

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The safety of children

The home’s restraint policy has been reviewed and updated in response to the statutory requirements following the last inspection. This ensures that debrief procedures are followed in the future. Staff use a restorative approach to repair harm and improve relationships and only use restraint to protect children. Since the last inspection, there have been no recorded restraints or any consequences issued. Assurance inspection report for children’s home: 2660251 3 Staff understand child protection procedures and what they are required to do when they identify safeguarding concerns, such as child protection concerns and allegations against staff.

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The safety of children

The child’s personal emergency evacuation plan has not been kept up to date to ensure that it reflects new concerns following emergency evacuation drills.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers

Leaders and managers have responded effectively and promptly to the shortfalls identified at the last inspection. The use of internal and external monitoring is improving their capacity to make continuous improvements in the home.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers

In a minority of cases, Ofsted has not been notified of serious incidents relating to children. The impact on children from these shortfalls has been minimised with staff’s timely and appropriate interventions.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers

Staff rotas are reviewed on a regular basis and are created to provide a flexible approach to children’s needs. This includes increasing capacity when required to respond to new and emerging needs. For example, the number of waking night staff has increased at times to support children who are transitioning into the home and could potentially unsettle other children.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers

Staff are well supported by leaders and managers and have access to clinical supervision, group reflective supervision as well as monthly supervision. Additionally, staff have access to a range of relevant learning and development opportunities, including access to level 5 therapeutic childcare. Staff told the inspector that they have benefited from the learning in relation to the specific therapeutic practice model used at this home.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers

Weekly team meetings support staff to understand any changes in the children’s plans, which promotes a holistic approach to ensuring children’s needs are fully understood and consistently met. Staff also use team meetings to set targets for children to help them develop, such as creating routines and strategies for better sleep patterns and independence skills, including cooking.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers

Key stakeholders, such as local authority social worker and parents/carers, have provided positive feedback about the quality of care provided by staff. Comments seen by the inspector include: ‘extremely good organisation, really child-focused’, ‘I think your team are working brilliantly with him (child).’ Assurance inspection report for children’s home: 2660251 4

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

22/11/2022 Full Requires improvement to be good Assurance inspection report for children’s home: 2660251 5

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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 notify HMCI and each other relevant person without delay if—

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Requirement Due date

there is any other incident relating to a child which the registered person considers to be serious. (Regulation 40 (4)(e)) 28 April 2023

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Recommendation

 The registered person should ensure that children’s personal emergency evacuation plans are regularly reviewed and updated. (‘Guide to the Children’s Homes Regulations, including the quality standards’, page 42, paragraph 9.05)

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Recommendation

Registered provider: Catch22 Charity Limited

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Recommendation

Registered provider address: 27 Pear Tree Street, London EC1V 3AG

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Recommendation

Responsible individual: Emmanuel Akpan-Inwang

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Inspector

Nicki Shaw, His Majesty’s Inspector, Social Care Assurance inspection report for children’s home: 2660251 6 inspects 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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