Children's home run by Compass Children‟s Homes Limited

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1252937 1 Registered provider: Compass Children’s Homes Ltd

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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 registered to provide care for up to four children with social, emotional and mental health difficulties. It is owned and run by a private organisation. At the time of the inspection, one child was living in the home.

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Information about this children’s home

The manager has been registered with Ofsted since October 2024.

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This monitoring visit

This children’s home was judged inadequate at the full inspection on 18 June 2025. This monitoring inspection was undertaken to look at the progress made in response to the requirements issued at the last inspection.

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This monitoring visit

The provider has started to implement some changes in response to the requirements set at the last inspection. One of the six requirements set at the last inspection. However, several requirements have not yet been suitably addressed by leaders and managers to ensure that children have positive experiences of their care in the home.

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This monitoring visit

One child has left the home since the last inspection. Challenges in establishing trusting relationships with this child impacted on their feelings of safety and stability. The home provided immediate notice to the placing authority following a significant incident. This was extended in consultation with the placing authority to support the child to have a positive move back into their family home.

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This monitoring visit

The needs of children living in the home now fall within the home’s statement of purpose. Managers have implemented additional systems to ensure that the home has capacity to meet the needs of children moving into the home. This includes additional scrutiny of the training staff will need to respond to the needs of children placed. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1252937 2 Guidance in place for staff in monitoring health, weight management, communication and sensory needs remains unclear. Care planning has been reviewed to better reflect children’s local authority and health plans. However, this continues to lack the required details to ensure that staff consistently respond to and monitor children’s health, well-being and communication needs.

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This monitoring visit

Managers have not sought out consultation with external professionals such as speech and language, occupational therapists or dieticians to ensure they can better understand and respond to children’s health needs. The child in the home with ongoing health needs has now moved on. As a result of this, the inspectors were unable to ascertain if the home would have made ongoing enquiries to external support agencies.

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This monitoring visit

Challenges in obtaining information from health and social care professionals have created significant barriers in understanding and responding to the health and education needs of children. Children are not receiving appropriate information about their future plans or receiving the support to prepare for upcoming changes. When managers have identified barriers to obtaining the necessary plans and information, they have not taken appropriate action to address or escalate their concerns advocating for the children in their care.

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This monitoring visit

Barriers to children accessing education are not being recognised and removed. One child who wishes to attend full-time education has not received support to enrol on an appropriate course at college. As a result of this, the child is not receiving educational experiences in line with their peers.

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This monitoring visit

Complaints are still not being suitably recognised and recorded. Managers have not ensured that concerns raised by professionals are used to improve the care and support received by children.

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This monitoring visit

Monitoring systems have been reviewed to consider how they can better utilise feedback from external professionals, children and their families. Managers have not yet implemented or embedded changes in these monitoring and feedback systems in practice.

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This monitoring visit

There have been changes to external monitoring of the home and a new independent visitor has been allocated. Managers are positive about their experiences of these changes in monitoring and can identify improvements they have made in response to feedback. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1252937 3

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

17/06/2025 Full Inadequate 11/02/2025 Full Requires improvement to be good 05/07/2023 Full Good 26/07/2022 Full Good Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1252937 4

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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 health and well-being standard is that—

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Requirement Due date

the health and well-being needs of children are met;

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children receive advice, services and support in relation to their health and well-being; and

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children are helped to lead healthy lifestyles.

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

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achieve the health and well-being outcomes that are recorded in the child’s relevant plans;

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understand the child’s health and well-being needs and the options that are available in relation to the child’s health and well-being, in a way that is appropriate to the child’s age and understanding;

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Requirement Due date

understand and develop skills to promote the child’s well- being. (Regulation 10 (1)(a)(b)(c) (2)(a)(i)(ii)(iv)) 10 September

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Requirement Due date

The positive relationships standard is that children are helped to develop, and to benefit from, relationships based on—

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Requirement Due date

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

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strive to gain each child’s respect and trust. (Regulation 11 (1)(a) (2)(a)(viii)) 10 September Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1252937 5 The education standard is that children make measurable progress towards achieving their educational potential and are helped to do so.

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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

help a child who is excluded from school, or who is of compulsory school age but not attending school, to access educational and training support throughout the period of exclusion or non-attendance and to return to school as soon as possible. (Regulation 8 (1) (2)(a)(viii) 8 October 2025

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Requirement Due date

In meeting the quality standards, the registered person must, and must ensure that staff—

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seek to involve each child’s placing authority effectively in the child’s care, in accordance with the child’s relevant plans;

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seek to secure the input and services required to meet each child’s needs;

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if the registered person considers, or staff consider, a placing authority’s or a relevant person’s performance or response to be inadequate in relation to their role, challenge the placing authority or the relevant person to seek to ensure that each child’s needs are met in accordance with the child’s relevant plans. (Regulation 5(a)(b)(c)) 10 September

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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

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

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lead and manage the home in a way that is consistent with the approach and ethos, and delivers the outcomes, set out in the home’s statement of purpose; 10 September Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1252937 6 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

demonstrate that practice in the home is informed and improved by taking into account and acting on—

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Requirement Due date

feedback on the experiences of children, including complaints received;

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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)(a)(f)(g)(ii)(h))

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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: 1252937 7

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Children’s home details

Registered provider: Compass Children’s Homes Ltd

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: 3 Rayns Way, Syston, Leicester LE7 1PF

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Inspectors

Georgia Carty, Social Care Inspector Emma Haskell, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 1252937 8 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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