Children's home run by Madiba Limited

Inspection report for children’s home – monitoring visit: 2677465 1 Registered provider: Madiba Limited

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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 owned and managed by a private provider. It offers care for up to four children who experience social and emotional difficulties, and who may have learning disabilities.

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Information about this children’s home

There has been no registered manager at the home since 21 August 2025. There is no manager in post.

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Information about this children’s home

At the time of this visit, no children were living at the home.

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This monitoring visit

On 15 and 16 July 2025, a full inspection was completed of this children’s home. This inspection was brought forward due to an escalation in safeguarding notifications relating to the child living at the home. These raised significant concerns relating to the staff’s ability to keep the child safe, together with concerns about the leadership and management of the home. The registered manager had applied to cancel her registration with Ofsted voluntarily, which took effect on 21 August 2025.

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This monitoring visit

On 15 July 2025, inspectors were advised that on the following day, the child would told that they would be moving immediately to another home. The child had not been prepared in any way for this move.

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This monitoring visit

Given the shortfalls found, a case review took place while inspectors were on site. It was agreed that Ofsted would issue a notice to urgently suspend the home’s registration. It was decided at a further case review on 17 July 2025 that Ofsted would issue two compliance notices relating to the protection of children, and the leadership and management of the home. Inspection report for children’s home – monitoring visit: 2677465 2 This monitoring visit was undertaken to monitor the action taken by the provider to meet the steps within the compliance notices. No children were living at the home at the time of the visit. The provider has therefore complied with the suspension notice.

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This monitoring visit

Currently, there is no manager to oversee the day-to-day management of the home. There is also no staff team to work at the home. The provider has a plan to refurbish the home.

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This monitoring visit

The provider indicated that they do not plan to operate the home until 2026. Therefore, they have not taken action to meet the required steps in the compliance notices. The suspension notice remains in place until the end date on the notice. Inspection report for children’s home – monitoring visit: 2677465 3

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

15/07/2025 Full Inadequate 24/07/2024 Full Requires improvement to be good 25/07/2023 Full Requires improvement to be good 14/12/2022 Full Requires improvement to be good Inspection report for children’s home – monitoring visit: 2677465 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 protection of children standard is that children are protected from harm and enabled to keep themselves safe.

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

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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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help each child to understand how to keep safe;

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have the skills to identify and act upon signs that a child is at risk of harm; and

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understand the roles and responsibilities in relation to protecting children that are assigned to them by the registered person;

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take effective action whenever there is a serious concern about a child's welfare;

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are familiar with, and act in accordance with, the home's child protection policies; and

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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)(a)(i)(ii)(v)(vi)(vii)(b))

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This requirement has not been reviewed and has been restarted. 3 October 2025 Inspection report for children’s home – monitoring visit: 2677465 5 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;

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ensure that staff have the experience, qualifications and skills to meet the needs of each child;

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ensure that the home has sufficient staff to provide care for each child;

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ensure that the home's workforce provides continuity of care to each child;

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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, and

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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)(c)(d)(e)(f)(h))

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This requirement has not been reviewed and has been restarted. 3 October 2025

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The quality and purpose of care standard is that children receive care from staff who—

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understand the children's home's overall aims and the outcomes it seeks to achieve for children;

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use this understanding to deliver care that meets children's needs and supports them to fulfil their potential. 3 October 2025 Inspection report for children’s home – monitoring visit: 2677465 6 In particular, the standard in paragraph (1) requires the registered person to—

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understand and apply the home's statement of purpose;

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understand and apply the home's statement of purpose;

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protect and promote each child's welfare;

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provide personalised care that meets each child's needs, as recorded in the child's relevant plans, taking account of the child's background;

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help each child to understand and manage the impact of any experience of abuse or neglect; and

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help each child to develop resilience and skills that prepare the child to return home, to live in a new placement or to live independently as an adult. (Regulation 6 (1)(a)(b) (2)(a)(b)(i)(ii)(iv)(v)(vi))

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This requirement has not been reviewed and has been restarted. The positive relationships standard is that children are helped to develop, and to benefit from, relationships based on—

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an understanding about acceptable behaviour; and

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positive responses to other children and adults.

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

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meet each child's behavioural and emotional needs, as set out in the child's relevant plans;

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understand how children's previous experiences and present emotions can be communicated through behaviour and have the competence and skills to interpret these and develop positive relationships with children; and 3 October 2025 Inspection report for children’s home – monitoring visit: 2677465 7 are provided with supervision and support to enable them to understand and manage their own feelings and responses to the behaviour and emotions of children, and to help children to do the same. (Regulation 11 (1)(a)(b)(c) (2)(a)(i)(ix)(x))

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This requirement has not been reviewed and has been restarted. No measure of control or discipline which is excessive, unreasonable or contrary to paragraph (2) may be used in relation to any child.

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The following measures may not be used to discipline any child—

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any restriction, other than one imposed by a court or in accordance with regulation 22 (contact and access to communications), on—

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a child's contact with parents, relatives or friends; and

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imposing a financial penalty, other than a requirement for the payment of a reasonable sum (which may be by instalments) by way of reparation. (Regulation 19 (1) (2)(c)(i)(f))

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This requirement has not been reviewed and has been restarted. 3 October 2025

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

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employ an individual to work at the children's home; or

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if an individual is employed by a person other than the registered person to work at the home in a position in which the individual may have regular contact with children, allow that individual to work at the home, if the individual satisfies the requirements in paragraph (3).

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the individual has the appropriate experience, qualification and skills for the work that the individual is to perform. 3 October 2025 Inspection report for children’s home – monitoring visit: 2677465 8 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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the Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare (England) ("the Level 3 Diploma"); or

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

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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)(b) (3)(b) (4)(a)(b) (5)(a))

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Requirement Due date

This requirement has not been reviewed and has been restarted. The registered person must prepare and implement a policy ("the behaviour management policy") which sets out—

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how appropriate behaviour is to be promoted in the children's home; and

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the measures of control, discipline and restraint which may be used in relation to children in the home.

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within 5 days of the use of the measure, the registered person or the authorised person adds to the record confirmation that they have spoken to the child about the measure. (Regulation 35 (1)(a)(b) (3)(c))

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This requirement has not been reviewed and has been restarted. 3 October 2025 Inspection report for children’s home – monitoring visit: 2677465 9 The registered person must notify HMCI and each other relevant person without delay if—

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there is any other incident relating to a child which the registered person considers to be serious. (Regulation 40 (4)(e))

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Requirement Due date

This requirement has not been reviewed and has been restarted. 3 October 2025

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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: 2677465 10

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: One City West, Gelderd Road, Leeds LS12 6NJ

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Inspector

Rachel Webster, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children’s home – monitoring visit: 2677465 11 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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