Children's Home run by Inspirations Leicestershire Limited in Leicestershire

Inspection report for children’s home: 2504494 1 Registered provider: Inspirations Leicestershire Ltd

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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 home is privately operated and provides care for up to 4 children, who may experience social and emotional difficulties.

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Information about this children’s home

The manager registered with Ofsted in August 2025.

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Information about this children’s home

There were 3 children living at the home at the time of this inspection. All the children spoke to inspectors.

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Overall experiences and progress of

children and young people, taking into account

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outstanding

How well children and young people are helped and protected outstanding

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outstanding

The effectiveness of leaders and managers outstanding

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outstanding

The children’s home provides highly effective services that consistently exceed the standards of good. The actions of the children’s home contribute to significantly improved outcomes and positive experiences for children and young people who need help, protection and care.

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outstanding

Overall judgement at last inspection: outstanding

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outstanding

Enforcement action since last inspection: none Inspection report for children’s home: 2504494 2

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

19/03/2025 Full Outstanding 27/02/2024 Full Outstanding 08/03/2023 Full Good 27/07/2021 Full Good Inspection report for children’s home: 2504494 3

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: outstanding

There have been several changes to the children living in the home since the last inspection. Children have been supported to have extremely positive moves, when leaving the home. Some children who left were spoken to during the inspection. They expressed the incredible help provided by the adults in preparing for the next steps in their lives. When children do move, there is careful and patient planning to this process. Children’s needs and understanding are at the forefront of the plans in place. Adults work closely with families and new providers, where children require continued care. New providers spoken to said adults went above and beyond to share routines and support children’s transitions. The plans for new children moving into the home are equally meticulous and always done at the child’s pace.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: outstanding

There is a natural continuation of relationships after children leave. Children call the home frequently to share good news or just catch up with adults they have strong connections to. Adults are proud of the children’s progress and collectively tell them this when they call. This is something that new children to the home see and are a part of. This adds to the family atmosphere. The relational work with children is exceptional. It is the foundation to why children make progress when they move into the home. There is a collective understanding throughout the team of adults as to the importance of this. Relationships between children and adults are authentic, genuine and fun.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: outstanding

Children are at the centre of everything adults do when developing the plans for their care. Adults continuously consider and address children’s needs wishes and feelings. There is significant importance placed on this throughout a child’s time living in the home. Meaningful discussions with children, either alone or as a group, are always child focused and reflective. The managers have highly effective systems in place to analyse children’s care. This means that discussions with children are well planned within specific identified areas. This sits naturally alongside more ad hoc and reactive discussions to respond to changes for children.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: outstanding

The investment from adults to engage children with life-story work is amazing. Sessions are delivered and supported by adults with a wealth of experience from previous roles in their career. Adults have had significant additional training in theory-based models of therapeutic care. This is ensuring that the work is carried out with expertise. Children invest in the sessions and develop strategies to process their past experiences and subsequent emotional responses as they move into adulthood. Children are supported to develop and plan their own independence work. This is raising the confidence, skills and maturity of children.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: outstanding

Adults put significant and meaningful importance on children accessing education. They have high aspirations for children to achieve their goals and celebrate their areas of interest. Children who have found it difficult to attend mainstream school have been Inspection report for children’s home: 2504494 4 supported to access alternative provisions that better meet their needs. One child is now thriving because of these changes and looks forward to the day. One teacher said, ’The child has made excellent progress in the short time they have been living in the home and communication between adults has been second to none.’

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

Children have clear, detailed and up-to-date safety plans in place. Adults know children’s plans well and they fully understand risks. Managers have high standards, when it comes to safety plans being reviewed regularly as risk changes or to reflect significant incidents. There is an expectation that adults quickly familiarise themselves with changes, so they are providing the most up to date and agreed support to keep children safe.

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

The approach to supporting children with their behaviours and managing emotions is phenomenal. This is underpinned by extensive exploration of children’s experiences and past trauma. Children’s individual learning needs or diagnosis are carefully considered, when formulating support plans. Children are regularly supported to explore their emotions and how they process them. One child is benefitting significantly from tailored theory-based intervention. This is helping the child recognise and name emotions so that they can seek support or make alternative choices in how to manage them. This has seen a significant reduction in incidents in the home since the child moved in.

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

When children have struggled to manage emotions and thoughts, there is an emphasis on helping the child to move forward and avoiding feelings of shame. When damage to the home occurs, there is an immediate response from managers and the organisation to complete repairs. This allows adults to address issues of behaviour at a time and pace that is right for the child. It also considers the impact of significant incidents on the wellbeing of other children living in the home.

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

There is a robust and effective response to children who self-harm or have thoughts of suicide. Risk assessments are reinforced by multi-professional agreed safety plans. These plans consider the independence and age of children to ensure any interventions are proportionate to the child’s journey. For one child who has recently moved to the home, there has been an immediate focus on understanding their needs, past experiences and the source of them making risky decisions.

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

The response to children going missing or attempting to do so is highly effective. Children have clear and detailed protocols in place. Adults follow plans and take all the required and expected steps to locate children and bring them home safely. Safety plans reflect children’s needs or understanding, when it comes to the required responses. Oversight and reflection of missing incidents is thorough. Managers reflect on the individual child’s current situation and review factors that are currently influencing decisions they make. This then provides opportunities for adults to explore with the children the reasons they might go missing. Inspection report for children’s home: 2504494 5 When restraint is used to keep children safe, it is always as a last resort. Staff are trained in the safe use of physical intervention. The manager is a trainer in the model being used by the organisation. This ensures that the review of incidents of children

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

being held is in depth and reflective. There is a focus on the reduction of the use through the excellent work in relation to behaviour support. Children and staff are encouraged and supported to discuss and debrief after incidents to ensure everyone’s wellbeing is at the centre of ensuring safe practice in this area.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: outstanding

There has been a change in registered manager since the last inspection. The new manager and deputy provide a strong leadership team and work incredibly well together. Both have worked in the home in senior roles previously and this has contributed to a seamless change in leadership. Both are fiercely dedicated to their roles and in achieving positive outcomes for children.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: outstanding

Managers are supported by an established and experienced leadership team in the organisation. There is a continuous programme of opportunities for managers to learn and develop. Peer support from other registered managers is genuine and reactive. This prevents managers from feeling isolated during challenging periods in the home.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: outstanding

Staff receive excellent support from their managers. Staff unanimously stated that the managers offer consistent guidance and care to the team. One-to-one time for adults to reflect and discuss practice and their wellbeing is prioritised and protected. Although the responsibility for supervision is shared among the leadership team, the manager has oversight of all discussions. They then track individual’s progress and plan their development and yearly appraisal. Staff are supported to progress to more senior roles, and their aspirations are celebrated by a strong ‘grow your own’ culture in the organisation.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: outstanding

Team meetings are regular and effective. These meetings are not just an opportunity to bring the team together. They are a well planned and dynamic system of practice improvement and raising team morale. Managers ensure staff receive all the required training but go above and beyond when available courses do not align with children’s specific needs. Managers create their own training sessions based on careful research and utilising individual skills and experience from the team.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: outstanding

The managers have a highly effective system of oversight, review and reflection in place. There is not an element of practice or children’s care that managers do not have thorough oversight of. This encapsulates the manager’s detailed knowledge of the home and is the foundation of them knowing it’s strengths and the areas they feel need more development. Inspection report for children’s home: 2504494 6 Several professionals and family members were spoken to for feedback during the inspection. Feedback was outstanding and there was significant praise afforded to the team. Professionals said how communication was excellent and that adults go above and beyond for children. Children’s best interests are always the focus of any decisions made. One parent said that the level of care provided by the home was phenomenal and that they were always treated with respect. Another parent said that the home was responsible for bringing their family back together and that they simply could not thank

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: outstanding

them enough. Inspection report for children’s home: 2504494 7

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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: 2504494 8

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Children’s home details

Registered provider: Inspirations Leicestershire Ltd

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: 131a London Road, Oadby, Leicester LE2 5DP

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Inspectors

Chris Haines, Social Care Inspector Pauline Wigley, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children’s home: 2504494 9 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 children looked after, safeguarding and child protection.

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