Children's Home run by Laska Care and Education Ltd in Calderdale

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2592846 1 Registered provider: Laska Care and Education Limited

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Inspected under the social care common assessment framework

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Information about this children’s home

The home is run by a private company. It provides care for up to two children who may experience social and emotional difficulties. The home has had no children living in it since August 2023.

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Information about this children’s home

The manager registered with Ofsted in October 2020. The manager is also registered to manage another children’s home for the provider.

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This monitoring visit

On 1 May 2024, Ofsted issued a notice of decision to vary the conditions of registration of the home. The home was not in operation, and there were no plans to admit children to the home. The variation to the conditions was that the provider must inform Ofsted of their intention to admit children three months before a child commences living at the home.

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This monitoring visit

The provider has advised that they wish to accommodate children again. Therefore, this monitoring visit was undertaken to establish whether the provider has made suitable arrangements for the home to resume operating.

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This monitoring visit

The provider has invested in refurbishing the home. The environment is warm and nurturing. The home has been decorated and furnished to a suitable standard and is ready to be personalised once children move in.

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This monitoring visit

Leaders and managers have sufficient staff to offer care to one child and an ongoing recruitment process is in place to fill the vacant posts. Leaders and managers were unable to demonstrate the assessments and actions carried out to ensure that all aspects for safer staff recruitment are followed to protect children effectively. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2592846 2 At the point of closure, external monitoring visits have been maintained. The provider has suitable resources in place to resume offering care to children in line with the home’s statement of purpose. The provider is ready for children to move in.

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This monitoring visit

At the point that the home closed, inspectors had not evaluated improvements to meet the requirements made at the last full inspection. Those requirements are restated and one further requirement has been raised. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2592846 3

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

15/11/2023 Full Requires improvement to be good 12/05/2021 Full Good Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2592846 4

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Statutory requirements

This section sets out the actions that the registered persons must take to meet the Care Standards Act 2000, The Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015 and the ‘Guide to the Children’s Homes Regulations, including the quality standards’. The registered persons must comply with 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

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. (Regulation 12 (1) (2)(b))

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Requirement Due date

In particular, to ensure that all concerns, including any from recruitment checks for current or future staff, are fully considered and safeguards put in place. 25 April 2025

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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

help each child to understand how to keep safe;

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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 25 April 2024 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2592846 5 are familiar with, and act in accordance with, the home’s child protection policies. (Regulation 12 (1) (2)(a)(i)(ii)(v)(vi)(vii))

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Requirement Due date

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

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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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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

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.

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Requirement Due date

use monitoring and review systems to make continuous improvements in the quality of care provided in the home. (Regulation 13 (1)(a)(b) (2)(f)(h))

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Requirement Due date

In particular, the registered person must ensure consistent oversight of all records, and ensure that monitoring and reviewing systems are effective.

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Requirement Due date

This requirement was made at the last inspection and is restated. 25 April 2024

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must recruit staff using recruitment procedures that are designed to ensure children’s safety.

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Requirement Due date

employ an individual to work at the children’s home if the individual satisfies the requirements in paragraph (3).

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Requirement Due date

the individual has the appropriate experience, qualification and skills for the work that the individual is to perform. 25 April 2024 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2592846 6 For the purposes of paragraph (3)(b), an individual who works in the home in a care role has the appropriate qualification if, by the relevant date, the individual has attained—

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Requirement Due date

the Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare (England) (“the Level 3 Diploma”); or

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Requirement Due date

a qualification which the registered person considers to be equivalent to the Level 3 Diploma.

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Requirement Due date

in the case of an individual who starts working in a care role in a home after 1st April 2014, the date which falls 2 years after the date on which the individual started working in a care role in a home; or

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Requirement Due date

in the case of an individual who was working in a care role in a home on 1st April 2014, 1st April 2016. (Regulation 32 (1) (2)(a) (3)(b) (4)(a)(b) (5)(a)(b))

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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

The care planning standard is that children—

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Requirement Due date

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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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

manage and review the placement of each child in the home; and

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Requirement Due date

plan for, and help, each child to prepare to leave the home or to move into adult care in a way that is consistent with arrangements agreed with the child’s placing authority. 25 April 2024 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2592846 7 that each child’s relevant plans are followed. (Regulation 14 (1)(a)(b) (2)(b)(ii)(iii)(c))

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Requirement Due date

In particular, the registered persons must ensure that they work collaboratively with other professional and share updated information regarding children’s well-being and care planning.

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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must ensure that all employees—

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Requirement Due date

receive practice-related supervision by a person with appropriate experience. (Regulation 33 (4)(b))

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Requirement Due date

In particular, the registered person must ensure that staff members receive supervision from a person who is independent and free from any possible conflict of interest, in order to promote children’s welfare.

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Requirement Due date

This requirement was made at the last inspection and is restated. 25 April 2024

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Recommendations

 The registered person should ensure that they take actions to make sure that the children’s home meets all children’s basic care needs and have personal effects that support the home to be homely and create a domestic impression. (‘Guide to the Children’s Homes Regulations, including the quality standards’, page 15, paragraph 3.7 and 3.9)  The registered person should ensure that when they have children living in the home that they undertake a review of the quality of care provided to children. (‘Guide to the Children’s Homes Regulations, including the quality standards’, page 64, paragraph 15.2)  The registered person should ensure that there is a development plan in place that identifies any actions and maintenance work required for the next six months within the home, and how those actions will be addressed. The review process and the resulting report should be used as a tool for continuous improvement in

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Recommendations

the home. (‘Guide to the Children’s Homes Regulations, including the quality standards’, page 65, paragraph 15.4)

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Information about this inspection

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2592846 8 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: 2592846 9

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Children’s home details

Registered provider: Laska Care and Education Limited

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: Euroway House, Roydsdale Way, Bradford BD4 6SE

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Inspector

Gina Lightfoot, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2592846 10 and 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 looked after children, safeguarding and child protection.

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Inspector

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