Children's Home run by Homes 2 Inspire Limited in Somerset

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2719389 1 Registered Provider: Homes 2 Inspire Ltd

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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 part of a partnership with a placing authority to provide care for up to three children with social and emotional difficulties.

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Information about this children’s home

No children were living in the home at the time of this inspection.

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Information about this children’s home

A new manager is in post. They have not yet applied to register with Ofsted.

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This monitoring visit

An assurance inspection was carried out on 27 November 2025. The inspection found serious and widespread concerns in relation to the leadership and management of the home, the protection of children and how children are supported to develop positive relationships. Consequently, compliance notices were issued under regulation 11, regulation 12 and regulation 13. In addition, a notice restricting the accommodation of the home was issued. The purpose of this monitoring visit was to determine the progress leaders and managers had made to address the concerns outlined in the compliance notices.

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This monitoring visit

Leaders have reflected on the outcome of the assurance inspection. They accept that changes and improvements are required to ensure that children will be provided with the level of care that they require when the home reopens. They have formulated an improvement plan that focuses on the development of a new management and staff team. In addition, leaders are recruiting to the senior leadership team, with the aim of providing a wider support system. However, actions required to meet the compliance notices have not been completed.

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This monitoring visit

The journey of improvement has commenced. However, changes and developments are in their infancy. The newly recruited staff team, including the manager, lacks Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2719389 2 experience of working in residential children’s homes. The ability of the team to meet the needs of children who will live in the home is currently untested. Training to support staff to develop essential skills and knowledge through induction training, spending time in other homes and completing assessment-type tasks and scenarios, is underway but has not been completed.

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This monitoring visit

As a measure to try and prevent similar events in the future, leaders and managers have made changes to the process of deciding whether the home is right for a child. These changes plan to give managers more say in the process. They also propose to amend the home’s statement of purpose with the aim of admitting children who are deemed to be lower risk. However, a full review of practice and the concerns that led to a deterioration in the quality of care and the subsequent restriction of accommodation has not been completed. This does not help leaders and managers to identify what went wrong and the actions needed to prevent similar occurrences in the future.

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This monitoring visit

Managers have documented their oversight of incidents that occurred in the home. This is not critically reflective and does not consider the quality of staff practice, the care provided to the child or any learning that might be required to improve practice.

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This monitoring visit

Staff spoke to the previous child about risks and their future. However, they have shown limited curiosity into the child’s experiences of the care provided to them. Reflective conversations following incidents or behaviours of concern have not taken place. This does not help children to develop their awareness of the impact and repercussions of their behaviours.

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This monitoring visit

Clear safety planning implemented to keep the previous child safe was not followed by staff on two occasions. One of these occasions led to the child experiencing serious repercussions. Leaders and managers have appropriately addressed concerns about staff practice within practice reviews.

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This monitoring visit

Work to complete repairs to the home has been completed. Further work is needed to ensure that the environment is suitable for children to live in.

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This monitoring visit

Due to the nature of this inspection, requirements and recommendations from the full inspection and assurance inspection were not considered during this inspection. These requirements and recommendations remain in place. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2719389 3

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

15/10/2025 Full Requires improvement to be good 30/04/2024 Full Good 18/07/2023 Full Good Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2719389 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 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 to aspire to their full potential; and

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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

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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Requirement Due date

demonstrate that practice in the home is informed and improved by taking into account and acting on—

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research and developments in relation to the ways in which the needs of children are best met; and

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feedback on the experiences of children, including complaints received;

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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)(e)(f)(g)(i)(ii)(h))

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Requirement Due date

In particular, leaders and managers must ensure that there is effective monitoring and oversight of the quality of care 15 February 2026 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2719389 5 children receive and take immediate and effective action, when needed, to bring about improvement.

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Requirement Due date

In addition, the provider must ensure that leaders, managers and staff have the required experience, skills and knowledge to provide safe, consistent and effective care to each child. This includes, but is not limited to, having the skills and confidence to support and educate children about how to keep safe; implement consistent boundaries; build healthy relationships with children based on trust; confidently and skilfully intervene during incidents to increase children’s safety and reduce the occurrence of incidents; and implement robust risk and behaviour management.

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Requirement Due date

In addition, the registered person must ensure that leaders, managers and staff have sufficient knowledge and understanding of their role and responsibilities in protecting children. 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;

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ensure the effective induction of each child into the home. (Regulation 14 (1)(a)(b) (2)(a)(b)(i)) 9 January 2026

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Requirement Due date

*These requirements are subject of a compliance notice. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2719389 6

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Recommendation

 The registered person should ensure that they provide a safe, homely and comfortable home environment for children. Repairs to the home should be completed in a timely manner. (‘Guide to the Children’s Homes Regulations, including the quality standards’, page 15, paragraph 3.9)

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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: 2719389 7

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Children’s home details

Registered provider: Homes 2 Inspire Ltd

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: Lumonics House, Valiant Office Suites, Valley Drive, Rugby CV21 1TQ

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Inspector

Carla Simkiss, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2719389 8 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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Inspector

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