Children's home run by Nurturing Children’s Services Ltd

Inspection report for children's home: 2848049 1 Registered provider: Nurturing Childrens Services Ltd

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Full inspection Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children's home

This home is run by a private organisation. It provides care for up to 2 children who may experience social and emotional difficulties.

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Information about this children's home

Two children have lived at the home since Ofsted registered it in July 2025. At the time of the inspection, 1 child was living at the home. The child was spoken with during the inspection.

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Information about this children's home

The manager registered with Ofsted in July 2025 and is suitably qualified for their role.

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Overall experiences and progress of

children and young people, taking into account

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good

How well children and young people are helped and protected good

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good

The effectiveness of leaders and managers good

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good

The children's home provides effective services that meet the requirements for good.

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good

Date of last inspection: not previously inspected

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good

Overall judgement at last inspection: not applicable

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good

Enforcement action since last inspection: not applicable Inspection report for children's home: 2848049 2

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

The desire to build meaningful relationships with children is at the heart of staff practice. Staff conduct themselves calmly and patiently. Furthermore, staff take a genuine interest to learn about the children's circumstances and backgrounds. As a result, children sense that staff are committed to understanding their unique situation and needs.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff seek the children's views on how they would like to celebrate religious events, such as Christmas. In doing so, children feel that their views are acknowledged and validated. Furthermore, staff are insightful about the broad concept of diversity, whether this be ethnicity, culture, or the children's interests. In doing so, children develop positive traits around tolerance, respect and basic human values.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Children's families quickly become reassured about how their children are cared for. This is due to the efforts that are made for staff to become acquainted with children's parents. Subsequently, children's families are consistently informed about and, where possible, involved in their children's lives.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

A child has reconnected with their education after enduring a significant period of disrupted care arrangements. Two significant factors have influenced this, stability and trusting the guidance of staff. Crucially, this child has developed a sense of hope for their future and has a clear aspiration to pursue.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

The children's daily written records are comprehensive and provide a detailed insight into what the child's day looked like. Woven into these records are important conversations that are held with children as well as significant events that occur in the children's life. However, this personable style of reflective writing is not apparent in the children's placement plans, which staff encourage children to read. These plans are written using broad sweeping and impersonal statements that are unhelpful to children.

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How well children and young people are helped and protected: good

Accessing specialist services for children is proportionate. Leaders and managers understand the limitations of support available in the home and are adept at seeking more help when necessary. Moreover, there is consistent engagement with children's respective local authorities that ensure that children's needs are frequently reviewed and acted on in a coordinated and timely manner.

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How well children and young people are helped and protected: good

Leaders and managers ensure that children are given access to legal advice. In doing so, children are legally empowered around ensuring that their human rights are recognised and exercised. Examples involve children being supported to acquire British citizenship and teenage parents having access to legal representation and support. Staff gain the children's trust by being open and honest. In doing so, the child living in the home has started to share information about their networks in the community. This Inspection report for children's home: 2848049 3 clarity has enabled staff to promote positive friendships. In doing so, missing episodes have significantly reduced as the child's time in the community is better structured with reasonable precautions being applied by staff and the child's social worker.

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How well children and young people are helped and protected: good

When children's whereabouts are not known, staff exhaust all reasonable avenues to locate them. Importantly, staff know when they need the police's assistance to achieve this aim. However, the manager needs to be clear who from social care has authority to consent if the police seek approval to use social media to help find a child.

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How well children and young people are helped and protected: good

The children's written risk assessments do not provide clear enough guidance for them to be relied on by staff when required. This is due to the use of ambiguous language as well as a plethora of unnecessary information. However, staff are confident around supporting children who are embroiled in risky behaviours, so there has been no negative effects on children. Albeit the manager needs to review the purpose of children's written risk assessments.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The responsible individual makes good use of their objectivity to positively influence and guide the children's care. Notably, the responsible individual and manager are united in their approach, although, the manager maintains their autonomy as decision maker. This leadership model has clear benefits for staff and the team as a whole.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Leaders and managers ensure that they take responsibility for taking their own minutes from multi-agency meetings. In doing so, information is quickly cascaded to staff so that outcomes can be quickly implemented in practice. This shows an understanding of accountability and what constitutes effective information sharing.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

There is an economical and innovative approach around staff development. An example being senior staff workshops that develop confidence through widening their understanding of their role and influence in the team. Furthermore, isolated training sessions, such as on-line learning, are followed up with shared learning opportunities to revisit and reinforce learning.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Staff say that they feel supported by leaders and managers, particularly during periods of high challenge. Staff have observed that, in times of crises, leaders and managers are present and involved. Indeed, their input in difficult times galvanises staff and gives them a sense of a collective team effort.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Although the home's statement of purpose accurately reflects the service provided to children, the organisation's website contradicts some of this information. This could potentially misguide and confuse local authorities and other interested parties. Leaders and managers partly addressed this issue and have a plan to fully review how the organisation outwardly projects itself. Inspection report for children's home: 2848049 4

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Recommendations

 The registered person should ensure that the information set out in the home's statement of purpose reflects the information on the organisation's website. The statement of purpose is an essential part of the process of agreement between the registered person and placing authority. ('Guide to the Children's Homes Regulations, including the quality standards', page 15, paragraph 3.8)  The registered person should ensure that the home's procedures take into account the views of appropriate local services, and have regard to police and local authority protocols for responding to missing person's incidents in the area where the home is located. In particular, the registered person should be clear who the decision maker is from the child's local authority around consenting to the police issuing a media release to seek public help to locate a child. ('Guide to the Children's Homes Regulations, including the quality standards', page 41, paragraph 9.29)

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Recommendations

 The registered person should ensure that they actively assess the risks to each child and the arrangements in place to protect them. When there are safeguarding concerns for a child, their placement plan, agreed between the home and their placing authority, must include details of the steps the home will take to manage any assessed risks on a daily basis. ('Guide to the Children's Homes Regulations, including the quality standards', page 41, paragraph 9.5)  The registered person should ensure that the language used in children's written records is recorded in a way that will be helpful to the child. In particular, that the child friendly placement plan is personalised to that child. ('Guide to the Children's Homes Regulations, including the quality standards', page 62, paragraph 14.4)

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Information about this inspection

Inspectors have looked closely at the experiences and progress of children and young people, using the social care common inspection framework. This inspection was carried out under the Care Standards Act 2000 to assess the effectiveness of the service, how it meets the core functions of the service as set out in legislation, and to consider how well it complies with The Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015 and the 'Guide to the Children's Homes Regulations, including the quality standards'. Inspection report for children's home: 2848049 5

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Children's home details

Registered provider: Nurturing Childrens Services Ltd

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Children's home details

Registered provider address: 45 Kennedy Avenue, Huddersfield HD2 2HH

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Inspectors

Steve Guirey, Social Care Inspector (lead) Shaun Martin, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children's home: 2848049 6 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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Inspectors

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