Children's Home run by Mastery Services' Invictus Children's Home in Lewisham

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2841607 1 Registered provider: Mastery Services’ Invictus Children’s Home

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Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

This home was registered with Ofsted in May 2025 and is privately owned. It provides care for up to two children with learning disabilities.

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Information about this children’s home

The registered manager left the home in August 2025. The current manager started working in the home in the same month and has applied to be registered. In September 2025, the responsible individual left the home. The registered provider has recently appointed a new responsible individual, and Ofsted are currently considering this person’s suitability for the role.

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Information about this children’s home

Since the full inspection, the child who was living in the home has moved out. This means that there were no children in the home at the time of the visit.

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This monitoring visit

The home was judged inadequate at the first full inspection on 23 and 24 September 2025. As a result, four compliance notices were issued under regulation 12, the protection of children standard, regulation 13, the leadership and management standard, regulation 14, the care planning standard, and regulation 33, employment of staff. A notice restricting accommodation was issued on 25 September 2025.

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This monitoring visit

This visit was carried out to monitor the provider’s compliance with the notice restricting accommodation and to monitor the progress made against the compliance notices. The inspector found that the notice restricting accommodation has been complied with, and no new children have moved into the home since it was issued. The inspector also found that the provider has made good progress in meeting the compliance notices and the requirements raised at the full inspection.

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This monitoring visit

Leaders and managers have implemented an updated staff induction programme. This includes relevant training and activities to enable new staff to understand the Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2841607 2 home’s ethos, policies, and procedures, and be well placed to start working in the home. Oversight is now maintained through a clear sign off process.

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This monitoring visit

The child’s risk assessment is written clearly and considers all essential risks to the child. They also include an up-to-date chronology and there is guidance about strategies for managing risk. Leaders and managers ensure that these are read and understood by all staff.

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This monitoring visit

Staffing arrangements have become more stable. Since the last inspection, no staff have left, and the manager has strengthened rota planning to ensure a greater continuity of care. This has had a positive impact, which is reflected in a reduction in incidents.

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This monitoring visit

Leaders and managers have improved their oversight of incidents. Incident reports are now well recorded, and discussions take place with staff and the child afterwards. The subsequent manager’s reviews identify actions for the ongoing development of staff practice.

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This monitoring visit

Since the last inspection, the child who lived in the home was provided with education by their placing authority. Staff facilitated this and delivered key-work sessions to support the child’s learning. Leaders and managers kept oversight of the child’s progress using their education tracker. These new measures are not yet embedded but demonstrate the home’s potential to improve children’s educational achievement.

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This monitoring visit

Staff have been provided with training to ensure that the home meets its statement of purpose. This includes safeguarding, therapeutic parenting, and responding to behaviours of concern. Leaders and managers have helped embed this learning using post-training tests and having reflective discussions in supervision.

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This monitoring visit

Staff receive regular supervision sessions. These sessions include discussions about staff’s well-being, the child’s risks, and strategies to support them, and safeguarding and whistleblowing. Staff attend weekly team meetings, which are a forum for focused discussion about the child’s progress.

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This monitoring visit

The home environment is clean, tidy, homely, and well maintained. The fridge is now situated in an accessible location. A section of the garden has been developed into a sensory area.

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This monitoring visit

The compliance notices have been met, and the notice restricting accommodation has been lifted. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2841607 3

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

23/09/2025 Full Inadequate Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2841607 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

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. (Regulation 14 (1)(a)(b) (2)(a) 11 January 2026

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ensure that each employee completes an appropriate induction. The registered person must ensure that all employees—

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undertake appropriate continuing professional development. (Regulation 33 (1)(a) (4)(a)(b)) 11 January 2026

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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— 11 January 2026 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2841607 5 that staff—

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encourage each child to take responsibility for the child’s behaviour, in accordance with the child’s age and understanding;

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help each child to develop and practise skills to resolve conflicts positively and without harm to anyone;

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help each child to understand, in a way that is appropriate according to the child’s age and understanding, personal, sexual, and social relationships, and how those relationships can be supportive or harmful;

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strive to gain each child’s respect and trust;

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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;

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de-escalate confrontations with or between children, or potentially violent behaviour by children;

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understand and communicate to children that bullying is unacceptable; and

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that each child is encouraged to build and maintain positive relationships with others. (Regulation 11 (1)(a)(b)(c) (2)(a)(iii)(iv)(vi)(viii)(ix)(xi)(xii)(b))

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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: 2841607 6

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Inspector

Jo Mitchell, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2841607 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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