Children's Home run by Break Charity in Norfolk

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC025718 1 SC025718

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Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

This charity-run home provides care for up to 4 children who experience social and emotional difficulties.

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Information about this children’s home

At the time of this inspection, 3 children were living at the home.

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Information about this children’s home

The previous registered manager left the home in December 2024. The new manager started in November 2025.

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This monitoring visit

This visit was carried out to monitor the shortfalls identified at the last assurance inspection on 18 November 2025.

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This monitoring visit

Leaders and managers have not addressed all the concerns raised at the previous inspection. However, we did not identify any serious or widespread concerns in relation to the care or protection of children at this monitoring inspection.

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This monitoring visit

One child has moved out and no children have moved in since the last inspection.

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This monitoring visit

There have been several changes in managers since the last registered manager left in December 2024. The new manager who started in November 2025 has submitted an application to register with Ofsted. There is also a new deputy manager in post.

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This monitoring visit

While some shortfalls remain, there have been significant improvements in management oversight since the last inspection. The manager has developed and embedded into practice various new documents that aid their reviewing and monitoring processes. This includes a detailed daily log to provide the manager with the information that they need in relation to children’s day-to-day experiences.

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This monitoring visit

The manager or deputy manager reviews all records in the home and uses these reviews to guide and improve staff practice. These improved reviewing processes Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC025718 2 have helped the manager identify times when staff practice has not been in line with expectations. The manager has promptly and effectively addressed these practice issues to prevent recurrence.

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This monitoring visit

Staff supervisions have improved in quality and now better help develop staff practice. Staff have the opportunity to discuss individual children and their wellbeing. Staff discuss safeguarding matters and are asked scenario-based safeguarding questions during every supervision. These questions are designed to test and refresh staff’s safeguarding knowledge.

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Children’s plans are written in respectful and child-focused language, which is empowering rather than blaming. Children’s voices and wishes are clearly recorded, and their wishes are embedded in their relevant plans.

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This monitoring visit

Children’s day-to-day experiences of living at the home have improved. There has been an overall reduction in children going missing from home or incidents of substance misuse. All 3 children have educational placements. Two children attend college regularly.

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This monitoring visit

Leaders and managers have ensured that staff are now aware of their responsibilities and the expectations around the deployment of staff. Staff now respond to children in line with their risk assessments and plans.

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This monitoring visit

Managers have not always ensured that children’s relevant plans have been updated following decisions made in multi-agency child protection meetings. As a result, on one occasion, a child was permitted to have overnight stays away from the home against the direction of the local authority. Managers’ monitoring and review processes had not identified or rectified this shortfall.

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This monitoring visit

While a reduction in the number of children living in the home at the time of the inspection means there was enough staff at that time, this has not been consistently the case. Since the last inspection, there has not always been enough staff available to meet children’s needs. On one occasion, this resulted in a child not being supported by staff for the duration of their hospital visits. On another occasion, children spent time unsupervised in each other’s bedrooms at night. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC025718 3

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

10/06/2025 Full Requires improvement to be good 22/10/2024 Full Requires improvement to be good 04/04/2023 Full Good 23/08/2022 Full Good Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC025718 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 protection of children standard is that children are protected from harm and enabled to keep themselves safe.

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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

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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Requirement Due date

that the home’s day-to-day care is arranged and delivered so as to keep each child safe and to protect each child effectively from harm. (Regulation 12 (1) (2)(a)(i)(b))

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Requirement Due date

Staff are aware of, and follow, the local authority’s directions in relation to restrictions on children following safeguarding concerns.

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Requirement Due date

Children’s relevant plans reflect the local authority’s directions in relation to restrictions on children following safeguarding concerns. 12 February 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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promotes their welfare. 12 February 2026 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC025718 5 In particular, the standard in paragraph (1) requires the registered person to—

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Requirement Due date

ensure that the home has sufficient staff to provide care for 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; (Regulation 13 (1)(a)(b) (2)(d)(f))

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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: SC025718 6

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Inspectors

Andrea Bounden, Social Care Inspector Gemma McNevin, His Majesties Inspector Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: SC025718 7 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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