Inclusive Care Support - Leaving Care Services Ltd

Inspection report for supported accommodation provider – monitoring visit: Inclusive Care Support – Leaving Care Services Ltd Inclusive Care Support – Leaving Care Services Ltd

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Registered provider: Inclusive Care Support – Leaving Care Services Ltd

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Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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provider

This supported accommodation provider was registered on 27 September 2023. The service manager registered with Ofsted at the same time.

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provider

The provider can accommodate up to 46 children across eight group-living homes that are not limited to accommodating looked-after children or care leavers.

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At the time of the inspection, 18 children aged 16 and 17 were living at the provider’s shared supported accommodation.

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On 2 December 2025, Ofsted received a safeguarding notification about a serious incident relating to a child. The incident happened at this service on 1 December 2025.

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This monitoring visit was completed to evaluate how the managers and staff support children’s emotional well-being and mental health, and how they protect children from related harm.

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The leaders, managers and staff are highly aware of the need to support children with their emotional health. They are sensitive to the needs of children and create a nurturing environment for them to live. They are committed to providing support that is based on empathy and best practice for promoting children’s welfare and progress. The leaders and managers show genuine interest in children and know them well. They work in close partnerships with social workers and other Inspection report for supported accommodation provider – monitoring visit: Inclusive Care Support – Leaving Care Services Ltd professionals to ensure that children receive the support that they need. When children are not engaging, staff persevere to build a relationship with the children. One example of this is delivering support sessions over the phone to encourage children who are not staying in the placement, to think about their futures and how

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they can be best supported to achieve what they want.

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The leaders, managers and staff liaise with other professionals and the child’s personal network to look for the best ways to remove any barriers to the child’s engagement. They follow individualised multidisciplinary procedures for safeguarding children who go missing from care.

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The leaders, managers and staff carefully consider all information provided by the local authorities at the point of referral and ensure that children who live together are compatible. When this information includes references to mental health, they seek additional information to make sure that they have a clear picture of the child’s support needs, and that the staff team have the right skills to support a child with those needs.

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The safety and support plans clearly reflect the direct work which staff undertake with children. Children receive regular support sessions which help them to develop skills for life, such as being kind to themselves and building emotional resilience and healthy relationships. One child said: ‘She [staff member] has helped me to realise some things that I didn’t realise when it comes to family and relationship, that I didn’t know.’ One young person who is 18 said: ‘I got the support I needed. I had times when I needed to speak to them [staff] and they spoke to me and that helped me.’

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Staff support children to make health appointments when they are experiencing low mood. Staff support children with their health appointments, whenever the child wants this. This includes attending CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health) appointments. Staff appropriately support children to take prescribed medication, and this helps them to learn how to safely self-medicate. Some children who used to self-harm have not self-harmed since receiving consistent staff support.

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Staff check on children when they are in their bedrooms and undertake regular welfare calls, when they are out in the community. One child said: ‘They [staff] always make sure that I am OK. They are pretty equal about that and ask everyone how we are.’ One social worker highlighted the non-judgmental attitudes of staff as one of the underlying factors of the quality of support that they provide.

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The staff speak highly about the support that they receive from the management and other team members. Comprehensive training, supervision and additional support, such as counselling and complimentary therapies, are also available to staff to enable them to continue to work with children who have experienced trauma in their lives. Inspection report for supported accommodation provider – monitoring visit: Inclusive Care Support – Leaving Care Services Ltd

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Information about this inspection

The purpose of this visit was to follow up information received by Ofsted to ensure that the supported accommodation provider was complying with regulation.

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Information about this inspection

This inspection was carried out under the Care Standards Act 2000. Inspection report for supported accommodation provider – monitoring visit: Inclusive Care Support – Leaving Care Services Ltd

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Supported accommodation provider details

Registered provider: Inclusive Care Support – Leaving Care Services Ltd

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Supported accommodation provider details

Registered provider address: 46 The Ridgeway, North Harrow, Harrow HA2 7QN

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Supported accommodation provider details

Nominated individual: Marina Chorbadzhiyska

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Inspectors

Seka Graovac, Social Care Inspector Daniela Ferrario, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for supported accommodation provider – monitoring visit: Inclusive Care Support – Leaving Care Services Ltd 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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