Children's home run by Endless Possibility Care Limited

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2816819 1 Registered provider: Endless Possibility Care Limited

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Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

This privately run children’s home provides care for up to three children who may have social and emotional difficulties.

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Information about this children’s home

At the time of the inspection, one child was living in the home.

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Information about this children’s home

The home and the manager were registered with Ofsted in February 2025. There is no registered manager in post.

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This monitoring visit

This home was judged as inadequate at the full inspection on 8 July 2025. There have been no children move in or out of the home since the inspection.

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This monitoring visit

Since the inspection, the manager has left. The responsible individual is overseeing the day-to-day care alongside the deputy manager. A new manager has been appointed but is yet to start in post.

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This monitoring visit

The child currently living in the home is well protected. Staff understand the child’s risks and follow clear plans to keep the child safe, including regular conversations about staying safe online. When concerns arise about the child being contacted outside of agreed channels, staff act quickly and follow safeguarding procedures, which helps to maintain a safe and trusting environment for the child.

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This monitoring visit

The child has settled into the home since moving in and has built positive relationships with staff. This helps the child to feel safe and secure. Staff respond calmly to the child’s needs and support them to talk about their feelings, including sensitive issues, while giving the child space when needed. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2816819 2 The child enjoys a range of activities in line with their interests, including holidays away, visits to water parks, golf outings and other summer activities, all of which are well organised by staff. The child says they are happy in the home.

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This monitoring visit

Staff communicate well with the child’s school to support their progress. Staff understand the importance of children’s relationships and actively support family time, managing it creatively to meet individual needs. Staff respond sensitively to emerging difficulties for the child, including changes in family relationships, working closely with the child’s social worker and therapeutic team to provide appropriate support and guidance.

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This monitoring visit

Leaders and managers have ensured that staff have received additional training, including therapeutic support, and they provide staff with regular opportunities to reflect on their practice. This ongoing development, guided by managers, psychologists and social workers, helps improve staff skills and supports better outcomes for the child’s experience, ensuring they feel secure and understood.

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This monitoring visit

One social worker commented that staff have been ‘brilliant at adapting to what the child needs and making sure they feel listened to’, highlighting the positive impact of the staff’s flexible and responsive approach.

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This monitoring visit

Leaders and managers have clear oversight of all incidents and have introduced new systems to monitor and review the quality of care. Managers have implemented clear documents that help staff track the child’s progress and well-being. This gives managers a good understanding of how the child is doing and ensures the support provided is effective. As a result, the child feels cared for and is better able to manage their emotions, which helps them settle and build positive relationships.

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This monitoring visit

Some requirements made at the previous inspection have been met, while others were not considered during this visit but will be reviewed at the next full inspection. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2816819 3

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

08/07/2025 Full Inadequate Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2816819 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 within the given timescales.

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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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Requirement Due date

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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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

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))

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Requirement Due date

In particular, the registered person must challenge the placing authority or relevant person effectively when plans for children do not have accurate, up-to-date information. 26 October 2025

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The care planning standard is that children—

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

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that children are admitted to the home only if their needs are within the range of needs of children for whom it is intended that the home is to provide care and accommodation, as set out in the home’s statement of purpose;

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that arrangements are in place to— ensure the effective induction of each child into the home; 26 October 2025 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2816819 5 manage and review the placement of each child in the home; and

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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;

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Requirement Due date

that the child’s placing authority is contacted, and a review of that child’s relevant plans is requested, if—

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Requirement Due date

the registered person considers that the child is at risk of harm or has concerns that the care provided for the child is inadequate to meet the child’s needs;

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Requirement Due date

the child is, or has been, persistently absent from the home without permission. (Regulation 14 (1)(a)(b) (2)(a)(b)(i)(ii)(iii)(e)(i)(ii))

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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: 2816819 6

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Children’s home details

Registered provider: Endless Possibility Care Limited

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: 11-13 Station Road, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England NN15 7HH

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Inspector

Nicola Forrester, Social Care Regulatory Inspector Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2816819 7 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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Inspector

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