Children's Home run by Juventas Services in Norfolk

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2708784 1 Registered provider: Juventas Services

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Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

The home is owned and managed by a private provider. It offers care for up to 3 children who may experience social and emotional difficulties. Two children were living in the home at the time of this inspection.

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Information about this children’s home

The manager registered with Ofsted in August 2023.

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This monitoring visit

This home was judged as inadequate following a full inspection on 9 and 10 December 2025. Shortfalls in safeguarding children, risk management and the management of the home were identified. As a result, two compliance notices were served relating to the protection of children and the leadership and management of the home. A monitoring visit took place on 3 February 2026, which found that the provider has met both compliance notices.

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This monitoring visit

Since the last inspection, improvements have been made to support the child’s stability. The child has moved back into the main building in the home and receives regular support from consistent staff. This approach has supported the monitoring of child’s welfare more appropriately and has led to the child feeling cared for.

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This monitoring visit

Staff have refreshed safeguarding training and undertaken further mandatory training to enable them to support and safeguard children. Leaders and managers have ensured that staff have received additional training specific to the shortfalls identified at the home. Furthermore, the registered manager and responsible individual have followed up this session with a team meeting to test the knowledge and learning of staff. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2708784 2 Staff are now following the missing-from-home policy and have a better understanding of their roles when children go missing from the home. When children have been missing, staff remain looking for the children in local and known areas until they are found. Since the last inspection, there has been a significant reduction in incidents.

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This monitoring visit

Staff understand the risks that children face and the measures in place to protect them from harm. Children are supported by staff with individualised key-work sessions that enable all of them to understand the risks they face. These approaches help to keep children safer and support them to understand the risks they face.

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This monitoring visit

Professionals say they are somewhat reassured about the care and support staff and leaders are providing to children. However, there are still some concerns about not ensuring that children are adequately prepared for independence and not managing risks in line with their age and stage of development. Therefore, the requirement pertaining to effective and individual care planning will be reinstated.

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This monitoring visit

Leaders and managers have introduced new monitoring systems. However, these are still in the introductory stages and yet to fully embed. Charts have been implemented to monitor the progress of children and to use as an easy tool for identifying and reflecting on any patterns and trends in children’s progress and behaviours. Leaders and managers have identified there are additional tools that need to be implemented to ensure that oversight remains consistent and effective.

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This monitoring visit

The home presents as clean, welcoming and homely, with an array of children’s personal objects on display in order to individualise their surroundings.

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This monitoring visit

All other requirements made at the last inspection are outside the scope of this visit and will be reviewed at the next inspection. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2708784 3

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

09/12/2025 Full Inadequate 18/02/2025 Full Good 12/12/2023 Full Good Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2708784 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 quality and purpose of care standard is that children receive care from staff who—

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Requirement Due date

understand the children’s home’s overall aims and the outcomes it seeks to achieve for children; and

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Requirement Due date

use this understanding to deliver care that meets children’s needs and supports them to fulfil their potential.

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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

protect and promote each child’s welfare; and

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Requirement Due date

make decisions about the day-to-day arrangements for each child, in accordance with the child’s relevant plans, which give the child an appropriate degree of freedom and choice. (Regulation 6 (1)(a)(b) (2)(b)(ii)(ix))

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Requirement Due date

This requirement was made at the last inspection and is restated. 4 May 2026

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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

support each child’s learning and development, including helping the child to develop independent study skills and, 4 May 2026 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2708784 5 where appropriate, helping the child to complete independent study;

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Requirement Due date

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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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

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; and

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Requirement Due date

help each child to attend education or training in accordance with the expectations in the child’s relevant plans. (Regulation 8 (1) (2)(a)(i)(ii)(iii)(iv)(vii)(x))

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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: 2708784 6

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: Haines Watts Chartered Accountants Ltd, Yare House, 62–64 Thorpe Road, Norwich NR1 1RY

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Inspector

Naomi Starbuck, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2708784 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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Inspector

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