Children's home run by Lasting Threads Care Limited

Inspection report for children's home: 2854904 1 Registered provider: Lasting Threads Care Limited

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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 is one of several homes operated by a private provider. It provides care for up to 2 children who experience social and emotional difficulties.

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Information about this children's home

The home and the manager registered with Ofsted in August 2025.

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Information about this children's home

At the time of this inspection, 2 children were living at the home. The inspector spoke with the children.

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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 requires improvement to be 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: none Inspection report for children's home: 2854904 2

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff provide children with a good quality of care that is helping them to make progress. The children are siblings. Children's moves into the home were carefully planned and managed by the responsible individual, interim manager and staff. The responsible individual and interim manager advocated for the children to live together. This child- centred approach ensured that the children remained living together. This has helped the children to settle living in the home.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Children are establishing trusting relationships with staff. Staff work hard to understand children's needs. This is helping children to feel secure in their new home. Staff ensure that children's educational needs are met. Staff take the children to school, which allows one child to remain at their chosen school where they have friends.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

The home environment is decorated and furnished to a good standard. The home has a welcoming and homely feel. There are photographs of the children and their family around the home. Children's bedrooms are individualised to each child's preferences and decorated with their own belongings. This gives children a sense of belonging.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff ensure that children spend time with their family. Staff work hard to understand children's relationships with their family. This helps to ensure that children are safe when they see people who are important to them.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

There is effective communication between the responsible individual, interim manager and staff. The children's social worker said that staff keep them updated about relevant information. The children's father was also positive about staff. He described staff as nurturing.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Children's health needs are recognised, understood and met by staff. Staff take appropriate action when medical treatment is needed. Therefore, children are in good health.

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

Staff work hard to understand children's risk and vulnerabilities. Staff spoken to demonstrate a good knowledge of children's vulnerabilities. Children have risk assessments that are individualised to their specific needs. Risk assessments include strategies for staff to reduce risk. Staff follow these strategies in practice.

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

Staff know what to do if children go missing from home. On the few occasions where this has happened, staff have followed the missing-from-home protocol to ensure that children return home safely. Inspection report for children's home: 2854904 3 Staff endeavour to understand children's behaviours. Staff reflect on incidents and work together to review strategies to help children when they are in crisis. Staff focus on rewarding children's positive behaviour. As a result, children are beginning to understand the boundaries in place to support them. On some occasions, consequences for children are not appropriate. The interim manager identified this and took sufficient action to address this with staff.

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

Safer recruitment processes are followed. This helps to ensure that children are cared for by staff who are safe to do so. There has been one allegation against a member of staff. The responsible individual and interim manager followed safeguarding processes in respect of this. However, this incident was not reported to Ofsted in line with regulation. This impacts on the regulator's oversight of the home.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: requires improvement to be good

The registered manager has not been working at the home since November 2025. The deputy manager is managing the home with support from the responsible individual. The interim manager has not submitted an application to register with Ofsted.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: requires improvement to be good

There are shortfalls in the interim manager's monitoring and review systems. This could impact on the interim manager's evaluation to ensure that staff continue to provide safe and effective care for children. For example, children's risk assessments do not include management review and evaluation to help the interim manager ensure that the strategies to support and reduce risks to children remain relevant.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: requires improvement to be good

Staff attend regular team meetings. Staff contribute to the agenda for team meetings. This ensures that staff have a sense of shared ownership about their caring and safeguarding practices.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: requires improvement to be good

Staff have frequent supervision. This provides staff with the opportunity to reflect on their practice. This helps staff to consider any improvements they need to make to the care they provide for children.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: requires improvement to be good

The responsible individual completes audits in relation to the operation of the home. This information is shared with staff in team meetings. This is helping to ensure that staff understand the strengths of the home and areas for improvement.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: requires improvement to be good

The interim manager is getting to know the children. She is focused on providing them with a good quality of care. However, information in relation to children is not consistently recorded in children's plans and records. Therefore, it is not clear how staff need to support children to make progress. Inspection report for children's home: 2854904 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 within the given timescales.

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Requirement Due date

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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Requirement Due date

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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manage relationships between children to prevent them from harming each other;

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take effective action whenever there is a serious concern about a child's welfare. (Regulation 12 (1) (2)(a)(i)(ii)(iv)(vi))

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This is specifically in relation to ensuring that children's risk assessments are reviewed to ensure strategies to reduce the risk of harm remain effective. 22 March 2026

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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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understand the impact that the quality of care provided in the home is having on the progress and experiences of each child 22 March 2026 Inspection report for children's home: 2854904 5 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)(f)(h))

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This is specifically in relation to ensuring that management oversight is detailed on all records.

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The registered person must notify HMCI and each other relevant person without delay if—

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there is an allegation of abuse against the home or a person working there;

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there is any other incident relating to a child which the registered person considers to be serious.

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A notification made under this regulation—

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the other persons, bodies or organisations (if any) who or which have been notified; and

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any actions taken by the registered person as a result of the matter;

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must be made or confirmed in writing. (Regulation 40 (4)(c)(e) (5)(a)(i)(ii)(iii)(b))

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Requirement Due date

This is specifically in relation to ensuring that all significant incidents are reported to the regulator. 22 March 2026 Inspection report for children's home: 2854904 6

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Recommendation

 The registered person must ensure that any sanctions used to address poor behaviour are restorative in nature, to help children recognise the impact of their behaviour on themselves, other children, the staff caring for them and the wider community. In particular, the registered person should continue to monitor the use of consequences to ensure that they are not punitive. ('Guide to the Children's Homes Regulations, including the quality standards' Pg 46, Paragraph 9.38)

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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: 2854904 7

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Children's home details

Registered provider: Lasting Threads Care Limited

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Children's home details

Registered provider address: 49 Jamaica Street, Liverpool L1 0AH

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Inspector

Karen Andrews, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children's home: 2854904 8 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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