Children's home run by Safe Haven Adolescent Care Group Limited

Inspection report children's home: 2645897 1 Registered provider: Safe Haven Adolescent Care Group 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

The home is owned and managed by a private company. It offers care for one child with social and emotional difficulties.

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Information about this children's home

There has been no registered manager since June 2025. The new manager has applied to register with Ofsted.

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Information about this children's home

At the time of the inspection, no children were living at the home.

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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: 26 February 2025

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good

Overall judgement at last inspection: Outstanding Inspection report children's home: 2645897 2

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

26/02/2025 Full Outstanding 08/08/2023 Full Outstanding 20/09/2022 Full Good Inspection report children's home: 2645897 3

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff develop positive, trusting relationships with children. Staff engage children in sensitive yet meaningful conversations that support children’s understanding of their own needs and risks.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff provide children with positive starts and endings to living at the home, including when moving out of the home in times of crisis. Leaders and managers ensure decisions to end a child's placement are well considered and in the best interest of ensuring children’s continued safety.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff maintain positive relationships with children after they move out of the home, even under difficult circumstances. This includes staying in contact with and visiting children regularly in agreement with the child and their network.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff ensure children experience lots of positives and 'firsts' during their time living at the home. Staff celebrate children’s achievements and progress and are aspirational for children.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff support children's learning and education when a formal setting is not yet identified. For one child, the manager advocated strongly for education to be prioritised by supporting learning in the home and securing tutoring.

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

Staff understand children’s individual risks and vulnerabilities well. Staff respond consistently and effectively in line with children’s risk assessments and support plans. These plans are detailed, clear and regularly updated to reflect emerging needs or changes in risk.

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

Staff take necessary action to ensure children’s safety. When children go missing from the home, staff make determined and creative efforts to maintain contact with children. Staff work proactively with external agencies and follow agreed procedures. Staff also provide children with nurture and care when they return home. However, on one occasion, staff did not complete a room search in response to a child's missing and exploitation risks, as directed by the manager.

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

Staff confidently challenge partner agencies and advocate for children’s safety. For one child, staff escalated concerns for their safety and wellbeing which resulted in them being supported by specialist mental health services.

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

Staff respond to children’s behaviours appropriately for their known risks and vulnerabilities. Staff use de-escalation strategies well and when physical intervention has Inspection report children's home: 2645897 4 been used, staff have used this appropriately and proportionately to ensure children’s immediate safety.

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

Leaders and managers have not dynamically risk assessed the home environment to ensure safeguards are in place specific to a child's known risk. On one occasion, this meant staff could not easily access a room during an incident of self-harm where this was a known risk for the child.

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

Leaders and managers have not followed the providers internal allegation policy to ensure adequate investigation into an allegation against a staff member.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The new manager has reflected on children’s previous placements and improved systems to ensure children’s suitability and transitions are carefully assessed and planned. The manager has developed new monitoring systems and identified areas for improved practice. Whilst these systems are in their infancy, the manager has identified an action plan to improve overall practice.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Staff speak positively of the support from the new manager and deputy manager. Staff share supervisions are regular and of good quality. Staff value the focus within supervision on their individual development and learning.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The new manager has ensured team morale and dynamics have been sustained and promoted whilst they have been re-deployed to other homes within the company.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Some staff have not completed their qualification within the required timescales however this has been outside of the company’s control and related to issues with the qualification provider. Leaders have ensured prompt actions have been taken to address this and all staff have been re-enrolled on their qualification with another provider.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

There has been no registered manager or responsible individual for several months however both are now in role and have applied to register with Ofsted.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The manager is making continued efforts to identify a child to live in the home whilst ensuring any decisions are well considered and measured. Inspection report children's home: 2645897 5

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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, 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. In particular, the standard in paragraph (1) requires the registered person to ensure— that staff— understand the roles and responsibilities in relation to protecting children that are assigned to them by the registered person; take effective action whenever there is a serious concern about a child's welfare; and are familiar with, and act in accordance with, the home's child protection policies;

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Requirement Due date

(Regulation 12 (1)(2)(a)(v)(vi) and (vii))

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Requirement Due date

In particular, ensure internal procedures are followed in response to investigating allegations against staff.

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Requirement Due date

In particular, ensure that the home is dynamically risk assessed to ensure safeguards are in place in response to children's known risks.

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Requirement Due date

In particular, ensure that room searches of children's bedrooms are completed in response to safeguarding concerns. 26 March 2026

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Recommendations

 The registered person should ensure that all staff in a care role, including external agency or bank staff, must have the qualification in regulation 32(4) within the relevant timescale listed in regulation 32(5). ('Guide to the Children's Homes Regulations, including the quality standards', page 53, paragraph 10.12) Inspection report children's home: 2645897 6

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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 children's home: 2645897 7

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Children's home details

Registered provider: Safe Haven Adolescent Care Group Limited

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Children's home details

Registered provider address: 2 Whiting Street, Sheffield S8 9QR

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Inspector

Chloe Harvey, Social care inspector Inspection report children's home: 2645897 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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