Children's Home run by Prospera Group Ltd in Lancashire

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2794450 1 Registered provider: Prospera Group 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 registered with Ofsted in November 2024 and is operated by a private provider. It offers care for up to 2 children who may experience social and emotional difficulties.

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Information about this children’s home

The manager registered with Ofsted in September 2025.

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Information about this children’s home

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

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This monitoring visit

An assurance inspection was undertaken on 10 September 2025. This inspection was undertaken in response to concerns in relation to safeguarding practices and leadership and management. During this visit, inspectors identified serious and widespread concerns in relation to the care and protection of children.

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This monitoring visit

Following the assurance inspection, Ofsted decided to restrict accommodation at the children’s home under section 22B of the Care Standards Act 2000 (the Act) with immediate effect and issued compliance notices under regulation 12 and regulation 13.

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This monitoring visit

This monitoring visit was carried out to monitor the restriction of accommodation notice and to review the actions taken to meet the compliance notices. Inspectors found that the provider has complied with the restriction of accommodation notice.

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This monitoring visit

Since the previous inspection, one child has come to live at the home. Leaders and managers considered the child’s needs before they came to live at the home, reviewing the referral and meeting with the child’s social worker and team manager. However, key training linked to the child’s needs, including post-traumatic stress disorder, was not completed by all staff and only took place after the child moved in. This means there was a delay in ensuring that all staff had the skills and knowledge to fully meet the child’s needs. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2794450 2 Children are supported by staff when moving into the home and encouraged to personalise their bedrooms. Leaders and managers met with the child before they moved in to help them prepare. The child received a copy of the children’s guide to ensure they understood what to expect.

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This monitoring visit

The child is developing positive relationships with staff, who support their individual interests. The child has a strong interest in animals and attends stable management sessions. To celebrate the child’s birthday, staff bought them a rabbit and a guinea pig. This helps the child to feel valued, understood and supported and promotes their sense of belonging and emotional wellbeing.

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This monitoring visit

Children are supported to manage their feelings safely. However, following an incident of self-harm, staff did not carry out a room search, which led to a further incident. Records do not provide a full account of events, and details, including how the child harmed themselves, are missing. Dates are inaccurate and actions taken by staff are unclear. When the child raised a concern about receiving an online threat from a peer who appeared to know their address, staff did not take any action. These shortfalls impact on the safeguarding of the child and staff’s ability to ensure the child’s concerns and risks are fully understood and addressed.

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This monitoring visit

At the assurance inspection, concerns were raised that staff were not using a trauma-informed approach and were contacting the police in situations where this may not have been appropriate. The improvement plan notes that staff attended a face-to-face trauma-informed practice and co-regulation workshop. However, this training predates the inspection, and it is not clear if it has had a subsequent impact on staff practice or that the concerns identified have been addressed.

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In addition, not all staff are confident in responding to incidents of self-harm, and only a small number have completed the available online training. This limits the development of consistent practice and staff’s ability to respond safely and therapeutically to the child’s needs.

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This monitoring visit

The compliance notices have not been met and are restated. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2794450 3

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

10/09/2025 Full Requires improvement to be good 29/04/2025 Full Inadequate Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2794450 4

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Statutory requirements

This section sets out the actions that the registered persons 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 persons must comply within the given timescales.

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*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;

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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; 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;

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that the effectiveness of the home’s child protection policies is monitored regularly. (Regulation 12 (1) (2)(a)(i)(ii)(iii)(v)(vi)(b)(e))

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Specifically, the registered person must ensure that children’s risk assessments accurately detail current risks and are updated to reflect any changes. Risk assessments must set out the specific actions for staff to take to mitigate or respond to risks. 18 January 2026 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2794450 5 Training bespoke to children’s needs and risks must be undertaken by the manager and staff.

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Ensure that any safeguarding concerns are acted on without delay.

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The registered person must ensure that rotas and records include all staff working in the home at all times.

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

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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)(c)(f)(h))

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Specifically, the registered person must ensure that there are systems in place for consistent, effective leadership and management in the home. Ensure that there is management presence in the home and that rotas accurately reflect the time that the manager spends in the home.

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The registered person must ensure that there are effective on-call arrangements for staff at all times.

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The registered person must ensure that there are systems in place for management oversight to review practice effectively. 18 January 2026 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2794450 6 The registered person must ensure that all those supervising staff have had the relevant training.

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Staff should receive regular, reflective supervision that supports their practice.

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The education standard is that children make measurable progress towards achieving their educational potential and are helped to do so.

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

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help each child to achieve the child’s education and training targets, as recorded in the child’s relevant plans;

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support each child’s learning and development, including helping the child to develop independent study skills and, where appropriate, helping the child to complete independent study;

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understand the barriers to learning that each child may face and take appropriate action to help the child to overcome any such barriers;

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help each child to understand the importance and value of education, learning, training and employment;

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promote opportunities for each child to learn informally;

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maintain regular contact with each child’s education and training provider, including engaging with the provider and the placing authority to support the child’s education and training and to maximise the child’s achievement;

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raise any need for further assessment or specialist provision in relation to a child with the child’s education or training provider and the child’s placing authority;

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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; 18 January 2026 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2794450 7 help each child who is above compulsory school age to participate in further education, training or employment and to prepare for future care, education or employment. (Regulation 8 (1) (2)(a)(i)(ii)(iii)(iv)(v)(vi)(vii)(viii)(ix)(x))

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In particular, the registered person must ensure that managers and staff advocate for children to receive education.

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In addition, the registered person must ensure that children have clear structure and routine. Children must have opportunities to learn and activities must be in place to help them prepare for returning to education or employment.

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

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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;

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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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ensure the effective induction of each child into the home;

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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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ensure the effective induction of each child into the home;

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manage and review the placement of each child in the home; and 18 January 2026 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2794450 8 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. (Regulation 14 (1)(a)(b) (2)(a)(b)(i)(ii)(iii))

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The registered person must ensure that assessments of children’s suitability to live together are carefully considered alongside the staff’s skills, experience and ability to meet their needs.

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

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The registered person must ensure that an independent person visits the children’s home at least once each month.

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When the independent person is carrying out a visit, the registered person must help the independent person—

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to inspect the premises of the home and such of the home’s records (except for a child’s case records, unless the child and the child’s placing authority consent) as the independent person requires. (Regulation 44 (1) (2)(b))

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In particular, ensure that children’s bedrooms are routinely inspected by the independent person.

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This requirement was made at the last inspection and is restated. 18 January 2026

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The registered person must compile in relation to the children’s home a statement (“the statement of purpose”) which covers the matters listed in Schedule 1.

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keep the statement of purpose under review and, where appropriate, revise it; and

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notify HMCI of any revisions and send HMCI a copy of the revised statement within 28 days of the revision. (Regulation 16 (1) (3)(a)(b)) 18 January 2026

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*These requirements are subject of a compliance notice. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2794450 9

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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: 2794450 10

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: Langholme, Longsight Road, Langho, Blackburn BB6 8AD

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Inspectors

Nicola Forrester, Social Care Inspector Anna Belshaw, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2794450 11 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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