Children's Home run by Your Chapter Limited in Calderdale

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1234317 1 Registered provider: Your Chapter 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 is owned by a private company. It provides care for up to six children who may experience social and emotional difficulties.

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Information about this children’s home

There were three children living in the home at the time of this visit. The inspectors spoke with one child.

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Information about this children’s home

The manager registered with Ofsted in October 2024.

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Information about this children’s home

The provider runs an independent school from a registered building adjoining the home. The inspectors only inspected the social care provision on this site.

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This monitoring visit

During a full inspection on 29 and 30 April 2025, inspectors found several regulatory breaches that impact on children’s safety and their environment and welfare. In response, Ofsted issued two compliance notices under regulations 12 and 13. There was a further agreement made with the provider that no children would move into the home until the end of August. The provider immediately implemented an action plan to address the identified shortfalls.

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This monitoring visit

This visit was carried out to monitor the effectiveness of the action taken by the provider to address the compliance notices and improve the experiences and progress of children.

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This monitoring visit

There have been significant improvements and renovations carried out throughout the home. Children’s bedrooms are in good repair and are personalised. Alarms on internal doors are no longer in use. The communal areas of the home are safe, homely and well-furnished. There has also been action taken to ensure an appropriate standard of cleanliness and repair is maintained, and health and safety risk assessment and regular audits are ongoing. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1234317 2 Since the last full inspection, one child has moved out of the home. This child was supported by staff using a relational approach. Information-sharing with the child’s new staff team allowed for a shared understanding of the child’s needs. This helped the child experience a smooth move into their new home. No children have moved into the home.

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This monitoring visit

Senior leaders and managers have reviewed processes and practice in the home, including addressing issues relating to the culture in the home at the time of the full inspection. Increased presence and oversight of senior leaders and managers, and monitoring and review processes are now in place. Children have been prioritised. Support has been put in place for the registered manager, and staff have access to learning and development. There remain some discrepancies in the accuracy of details in recording, but this has not had a significant impact on the children. A revised statement of purpose has been written and submitted to Ofsted.

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This monitoring visit

A strengthened leadership and management approach is in place. The manager has shown an awareness and understanding of risks to children and the home environment. Concerns are identified and escalated, and leaders and managers’ oversight has improved. This is due to their increased presence and scrutiny through detailed and regular audits. This ensures constant review and monitoring from the manager.

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This monitoring visit

A review of processes and an increase in understanding have resulted in children’s individual risk assessments being appropriately updated and shared, ensuring that staff's understanding of risk is timely and appropriately managed. Safety plans are delivered effectively. Information-sharing and responses to concerns and allegations remain a focus for the leaders and managers. They have reflected on and learned from incidents, and protocols have been improved to better safeguard children.

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This monitoring visit

Senior managers have requested a change of the independent person to improve the independent and impartial monthly assessment of the home. The change has been made to ensure a thorough and impartial review of the home, including the arrangements for safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children. These changes are in place. However, the report from the initial visit had not been received at the time of this monitoring visit.

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This monitoring visit

Staff are receiving supervision on a regular basis. Supervision sessions provide a forum to review staff’s progress against their development and their understanding of safeguarding and of their roles and responsibilities in protecting children from harm. There is a focus on improving the quality of staff’s reflection in these sessions. There are personal development plans in place, regularly monitored through supervision. This is all recorded on the home’s shared electronic systems, ensuring an extended reach of scrutiny and assurance by the management team. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1234317 3 Professionals working with the home report an overall positive response from the home regarding information-sharing and communication. Support for the children is in place. This includes the children spending time with people who are important to them. Children are reporting to the professionals spoken to that they have their

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This monitoring visit

needs met and are happy living at the home. Children are making progress against their plans.

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This monitoring visit

Leaders and managers have taken sufficient action to address the steps set in the compliance notices. The provider has addressed the shortfalls and is working in line with the home’s action plan. The changes do need time to embed, and this has been recognised through the issuing of a requirement. Requirements made at the last inspection are outside the scope of this visit. These will be reviewed at the next inspection. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1234317 4

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

29/04/2025 Full Inadequate 05/06/2024 Full Good 25/04/2023 Full Requires improvement to be good 10/05/2022 Full Requires improvement to be good Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1234317 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, The 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 with the given timescales.

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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

use monitoring and review systems to make continuous improvements in the quality of care provided in the home. (Regulation 13 (1)(a)(b) (2)(h)) 1 August 2025

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Requirement Due date

After consultation with the fire and rescue authority, the registered person must—

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Requirement Due date

take adequate precautions against the risk of fire, including the provision of suitable fire equipment in the children’s home. (Regulation 25 (1)(a))

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Requirement Due date

In particular, the registered person must ensure that all fire extinguishers in the home are always accessible. Fire doors must not be propped open and must close securely into the frame.

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Requirement Due date

Additionally, the registered person must ensure that fire safety audits highlight any hazards and concerns.

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Requirement Due date

This requirement was made at the last inspection and is restated. 1 August 2025

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Requirement Due date

The children’s views, wishes and feelings standard is that children receive care from staff who— 1 August 2025 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1234317 6 take their views, wishes and feelings into account in relation to matters affecting the children’s care and welfare and their lives.

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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

ascertain and consider each child’s views, wishes and feelings, and balance these against what they judge to be in the child’s best interests when making decisions about the child’s care and welfare;

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Requirement Due date

help each child to express views, wishes and feelings;

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Requirement Due date

help each child to understand how the child’s views, wishes and feelings have been taken into account and give the child reasons for decisions in relation to the child. (Regulation 7 (1)(c) (2)(a)(i)(ii)(iii))

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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 may only use devices for the monitoring or surveillance of children if—

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Requirement Due date

the monitoring or surveillance is for the purpose of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the child concerned, or other children;

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Requirement Due date

the child’s placing authority consents in writing to the monitoring or surveillance. (Regulation 24 (1)(a)(b))

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Requirement Due date

This requirement was made at the last inspection and is restated. 1 August 2025

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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 requirements are that— 1 August 2025 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1234317 7 the individual has the appropriate experience, qualification, and skills for the work that the individual is to perform.

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Requirement Due date

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 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. (Regulation 32 (1) (2)(a) (3)(b) (4)(a)(b) (5)(a))

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Requirement Due date

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

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Recommendation

 The registered person should ensure that the staff record information about children in a non-stigmatising way. Information about the child must always be recorded in a way that will benefit the child. (‘Guide to the Children’s Homes Regulations, including the quality standards’, page 62, paragraph 14.4)

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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: 1234317 8

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Children’s home details

Registered provider: Your Chapter 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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Inspectors

Rachel Fairhurst, His Majesty’s Inspector- Social Care Sarah McGow, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1234317 9 regulates 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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Inspectors

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