Children's home run by Homes2Inspire Limited

Inspection report for children’s home: 1255745 1 Registered provider: Homes 2 Inspire Limited Full inspection Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

The home is operated by a private company that is owned and operated by a national charity. It provides care for up to five children who experience social and emotional difficulties.

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Information about this children’s home

The home is led by an experienced manager. Their application to register with Ofsted is in progress.

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Overall experiences and progress of

children and young people, taking into account

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outstanding

How well children and young people are helped and protected outstanding

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outstanding

The effectiveness of leaders and managers outstanding

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outstanding

The children’s home provides highly effective services that consistently exceed the standards of good. The actions of the children’s home contribute to significantly improved outcomes and positive experiences for children and young people who need help, protection and care.

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outstanding

Date of last inspection: 21 February 2023

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outstanding

Overall judgement at last inspection: outstanding

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outstanding

Enforcement action since last inspection: none Inspection report for children’s home: 1255745 2

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

21/02/2023 Full Outstanding 21/09/2021 Full Outstanding 19/02/2020 Full Outstanding 22/01/2019 Full Outstanding Inspection report for children’s home: 1255745 3

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outstanding

Children have an outstanding experience at the home. Children are treated with love, respect and nurture. Staff are providing children with an opportunity to have a meaningful childhood.

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outstanding

Since the last inspection, two children have moved in and two children have moved out. Five children were living in the home at the time of the inspection.

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outstanding

Staff take immense care to build trusting and sensitive relationships with children. Staff thoroughly enjoy spending time with the children, and this is reciprocated. They laugh together, play together and sing together. This creates an environment of a loving family home.

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outstanding

Staff write and speak beautifully about children. Children are seen and understood by the adults around them. The individual characteristics of each child are noticed and reflected back to them. This makes children feel validated for who they are and helps to boost their self-esteem.

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outstanding

Every child in the home attends school or college daily. The manager has sourced an education provision for one young person. The young person acknowledges that they are thriving in this setting and has expressed gratitude to the staff. The emphasis on education is improving children’s life chances.

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outstanding

Preparing young people for independence is a priority. One child is on a full independence programme. This has given the young person an experience of adulthood while having the safety of staff around them. Any areas that the young person struggles with can be addressed before moving from the home. This equips the child with the skills needed for independent living and promotes success once the child is living in adult accommodation.

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outstanding

Staff have a creative response to supporting children with their health needs. When one child moved in, they struggled to sleep at night. Staff have role modelled yoga, meditation and listening to white noise in the evenings to support relaxation. The child has engaged in these and shared feeling more settled overnight.

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outstanding

Staff entertain children especially well. Activities are wide ranging and focus on the individuality and sensitivities of children. As well as excursions to local beaches and attractions, children crochet, knit and do origami.

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outstanding

Children are involved in the community. Two children baked cakes and delivered them to a local home for elderly people. Staff also collect clothes to donate to charity. Underpinning these activities is kindness, which supports children to feel calm, comfortable and more emotionally regulated. Inspection report for children’s home: 1255745 4 The house is decorated to a high standard. Children’s bedrooms are decorated to their individual preferences. One child loves plants and has a number of them in his room. One child took great pride in demonstrating the technology that is used in one of the rooms. As a result of the attention given to the building, children have respect for it and are more able to thrive.

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outstanding

Children are significantly safer because of the care that they receive. Staff are attuned to children and can de-escalate behaviour quickly to minimise incidents. Relationships between staff and children are incredibly strong, meaning children feel able to talk to staff about their feelings rather than acting them out.

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outstanding

The risks of self-harm are understood extremely well. Staff help children to find alternative ways to manage their feelings. Staff also advocate for children with health professionals, for example by arranging for a child and adolescent mental health services visit to the home within 24 hours of an incident. This shows children that staff care about their well-being and want them to be safe.

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outstanding

As staff are skilled in recognising when children are distressed or upset; there has been one low-level physical restraint in over a year. Staff and the child were debriefed appropriately. The manager has evaluated the record of physical intervention and assessed whether the intervention was safe and effective. An extra layer of quality assurance has been provided by a restraint specialist. As a result, an opportunity was provided for staff to improve practice. This ensures that staff are more able to understand how to manage behaviour successfully.

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outstanding

Children rarely go missing. When this does happen, staff look for the children. When children return, they are welcomed home and independent return home meetings take place. This makes sure that important information about why children go missing is collected.

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outstanding

Staff apologise to children when they make mistakes. This role models to children how to take responsibility for their actions and helps to build trust and respect in relationships.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: outstanding

The manager is a highly committed, dedicated and enthusiastic leader. He has a clear ethos to provide children with a family environment that is caring in nature, and this is evident in the day-to-day running of the home.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: outstanding

The manager views individual team members as each being very important. As a result, staff feel incredibly valued, which has in turn led to a stable staff team. This has ensured continuity for the children and that the staff who have the best relationships with them are present to spend time with them. Inspection report for children’s home: 1255745 5 Leaders and managers have several high-quality audits which means they have full oversight of records. They are also aware of the strengths and weaknesses and how best to improve them.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: outstanding

Through exceptionally thoughtful and insightful decision-making, the manager has taken great care to ensure children who move into the home are well suited to those already living in the home. This means that as a group, they respect each other and show kindness to each other, reinforcing the ethos of a family environment.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: outstanding

Supervision sessions are regular, meaningful and focus on the children’s needs. Separate spaces are provided for staff to discuss practice issues and their well- being. The manager has introduced a new tool to support staff well-being. This enables the manager to easily see the areas where staff need support, and this can be delivered quickly.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: outstanding

No requirements or recommendations have been made at this inspection. Inspection report for children’s home: 1255745 6

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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 for children’s home: 1255745 7

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Children’s home details

Registered provider: Homes 2 Inspire Limited

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: Lumonics House, Valiant Office Suites, Valley Drive, Swift Valley Industrial Estate, Rugby CV21 1TQ

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Children’s home details

Responsible individual: Kathryn Scoltock

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Inspector

Hannah Phillips, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children’s home: 1255745 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 looked after children, safeguarding and child protection.

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