Children's Home run by Sanitas Cura Ltd in Liverpool

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2835212 1 Registered provider: Sanitas Cura Ltd

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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 operated by a private provider. It provides care for one child who may experience social and emotional difficulties.

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Information about this children’s home

The home registered with Ofsted in June 2025. The registered manager post is currently vacant.

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Information about this children’s home

There was one child living in the home at the time of this visit.

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This monitoring visit

This children’s home was judged inadequate at a full inspection on 21 and 22 January 2026. Inspectors identified significant shortfalls in the care and protection of children and the leadership and management of the home. As a result, compliance notices were issued under Section 22A of the Care Standards Act 2000, relating to regulation 12, the protection of children standard, regulation 13, the leadership and management standard, and regulation 32, fitness of workers. This monitoring visit took place to review the progress made in meeting the compliance notices.

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This monitoring visit

The manager has strengthened their oversight of risk management plans. The child’s plans now accurately reflect their current level of risk and provide staff with clear actions to take to keep the child safe. Staff understand how to respond effectively when the child is at risk.

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Staff regularly use physical holds to ensure the child’s safety. They demonstrate a clear understanding of when physical intervention is necessary and apply this proportionately. Following each incident, a member of staff speaks with the child to offer reassurance and to explore their views. Records contain most of the required information and provide a detailed account of the incident. However, occasionally, staff debriefs are not completed within regulatory timescales. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2835212 2 Staff understand the procedures to follow when the child goes missing from home. The child’s missing-from-care plan has been updated to reflect their daily routine and now contains accurate and practical strategies for staff to follow. Staff are aware of their roles and responsibilities should the child go missing.

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The manager has strengthened their oversight of incident records. Regular audits ensure that written information is accurate and relevant to the child’s needs. When errors are identified, the manager provides staff with constructive feedback, enabling them to correct mistakes and improve the quality of future records. However, records relating to accidents or illness do not always confirm that medical treatment has been offered to the child when needed.

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Leaders and managers are strengthening systems for the safe recruitment of staff. Senior managers have completed an audit of recruitment files and undertaken additional checks to ensure that all required information has been obtained. However, on one occasion, managers did not complete sufficient due diligence to confirm the reason an employee left a previous role working with children, as required by regulation.

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The quality of supervision is improving. Staff receive regular supervision and find this helpful. However, records do not consistently demonstrate that staff are encouraged to reflect on their practice. This represents a missed opportunity for managers to support staff to consider the impact of the care they provide.

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Leaders and managers now have effective oversight of staff training. The manager is updating the training programme to ensure that staff have the necessary skills to meet children’s needs. The new training system is beginning to be embedded in practice.

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Staff understand the child’s complex needs. They have completed relevant training, including in self-harm, deprivation of liberty orders and missing-from-care procedures. Staff now have a better understanding of the parameters of the court orders guiding the child’s care and are developing greater insight into the child’s behaviours. The child is experiencing more consistent care.

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This monitoring visit

The requirements raised at the inspection were not within the scope of this visit and will be considered at the next full inspection. The provider had taken sufficient action to meet the steps set out in the compliance notices.

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

21/01/2026 Full Inadequate Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2835212 3

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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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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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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. (Regulation 12 (1) (2)(a)(i))

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In particular, the registered person must ensure that—

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risk assessments identify actions staff are expected to take to reduce known risks;

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records must show what steps staff have taken to ensure children’s welfare if they experience an accident, injury or medical emergency. 10 April 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 and use this understanding to inform the development of the quality of care provided in the home; 10 April 2026 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2835212 4 use monitoring and review systems to make continuous improvements in the quality of care provided in the home. (Regulation 13 (1)(a)(b) (2)(a) h))

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In particular, the registered person must ensure that there is clear oversight of all incidents, including any shortfalls in actions taken by staff to manage and prevent risk effectively and that there are clear systems in place to evaluate and monitor the quality of care.

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The care planning standard is that children—

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receive effectively planned care in or through the children’s home.

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Have a positive experience of arriving at or moving on from the home. (Regulation 14 (1)(a)(b))

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In particular, the registered person must ensure that children’s moves into the home are well planned. 10 April 2026

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The positive relationships standard is that children are helped to develop, and to benefit from, relationships based on—

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

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meet each child’s behavioural and emotional needs, as set out in the child’s relevant plans;

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help each child to develop socially aware behaviour;

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encourage each child to take responsibility for the child’s behaviour, in accordance with the child’s age and understanding;

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communicate to each child expectations about the child’s behaviour and ensure that the child understands those expectations in accordance with the child’s age and understanding; 10 April 2026 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2835212 5 help each child to understand, in a way that is appropriate according to the child’s age and understanding, personal, sexual and social relationships, and how those relationships can be supportive or harmful;

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strive to gain each child’s respect and trust. (Regulation 11 (1)(a) (2)(a)(i)(ii)(iii)(v)(vi)(viii))

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In particular, the registered person must ensure that staff avoid using language that blames children for their behaviour. Records should highlight a child’s vulnerabilities in a respectful way that shows staff understand their needs.

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The registered person must prepare and implement a policy ("the behaviour management policy") which sets out—

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how appropriate behaviour is to be promoted in the children’s home; and

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the measures of control, discipline and restraint which may be used in relation to children in the home.

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The registered person must keep the behaviour management policy under review and, where appropriate, revise it.

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details of the child’s behaviour leading to the use of the measure;

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details of any methods used or steps taken to avoid the need to use the measure. (Regulation 35 (1)(a)(b) (2) (3)(ii)(v))

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In particular, the registered person must ensure that records of restraint detail de-escalation strategies used, the type of restraint carried out and the duration of any restraint. 10 April 2026

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The quality and purpose of care standard is that children receive care from staff who—

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

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use this understanding to deliver care that meets children’s needs and supports them to fulfil their potential. 10 April 2026 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2835212 6 In particular, the standard in paragraph (1) requires the registered person to—

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Ensure that the premises used for the purposes of the home are designed and furnished as to meet the needs of each child. (Regulation 6 (1)(a)(b) (2)(c)(i))

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In particular, the registered person must ensure that the home environment is child centred and homely.

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any limitation placed on a child’s privacy or access to any area of the home’s premises—

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allows children as much freedom as is possible when balanced against the need to protect them and keep them safe. (Regulation 21 (a)(b)(c)(iv))

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The registered person must ensure that staff and managers understand the permissive nature of deprivation of liberty orders in place. 10 April 2026

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The registered person must ensure that all employees—

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receive practice-related supervision by a person with appropriate experience. (Regulation 33 (4)(c))

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In particular, the registered person must ensure that the manager and staff receive supervision. 10 April 2026

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The registered person must recruit staff using recruitment procedures that are designed to ensure children’s safety.

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employ an individual to work at the children’s home; or

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if the individual satisfies the requirements in paragraph (3).

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the individual is of integrity and good character;

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the individual has the appropriate experience, qualification and skills for the work that the individual is to perform; 10 April 2026 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2835212 7 the individual is mentally and physically fit for the purposes of the work that the individual is to perform; and

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full and satisfactory information is available in relation to the individual in respect of each of the matters in Schedule 2. (Regulation 32 (1)(a) (3)(a)(b)(c)(d))

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In particular, the registered person must ensure that the reasons for an applicant leaving previous roles working with children or vulnerable adults are confirmed.

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Schedule 4 sets out the other information that the registered person must keep in relation to a children’s home. The registered person must—

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maintain in the home the records in Schedule 4;

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ensure that the records are kept up to date;

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and retain the records for at least 15 years from the date of the last entry. (Regulation 37 (1) (2)(a)(b)(c))

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Specifically, the registered person must ensure that records relating to the child’s admission to the home contain the details of the child’s placing authority.

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Additionally, the registered person must ensure that a copy of the staff duty roster of people working at the home is clear and legible and contains a record of the person’s full name and the number of actual hours worked. 10 April 2026

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The registered person must maintain records ("case records") for each child which—

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include the information and documents listed in Schedule 3 in relation to each child. (Regulation 36(1)(a))

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In particular, a copy of the child’s local authority health assessment must be held on the child’s records. The registered person must ensure that records are accurate and up to date. 10 April 2026

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The registered person must prepare and implement a policy which—

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sets out the procedure to be followed in the event of an allegation of abuse or neglect. 10 April 2026 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2835212 8 The procedure to be followed in the event of an allegation of abuse or neglect must, in particular—

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provide for the prompt referral of an allegation about current or ongoing abuse or neglect in relation to a child to the placing authority and, if different, the local authority in whose area the home is located;

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provide for the prompt referral of an allegation about past abuse or neglect in relation to a child to the placing authority and, if different, the local authority in whose area the alleged abuse or neglect occurred;

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provide for records to be kept of an allegation of abuse or neglect, and the action taken in response;

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describe the measures which may be necessary to protect children following an allegation of abuse or neglect; and

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describe how and to whom staff are to report, without delay, any concern about abuse or neglect of a child. (Regulation 34 (1)(b) (2)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f))

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Specifically, the registered person must make sure that full and accurate records are kept in relation to any allegation and any follow-up action in response to any investigation that may have taken place.

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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: 2835212 9

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: 64 Mill Lane, West Derby, Liverpool, Merseyside L12 7JB

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Inspectors

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