Children's Home run by Transform UK Communities Ltd in Tower Hamlets

Inspection report for children’s home: 2807396 1 Registered provider: Transform UK Communities 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 is a privately owned home that can care for up to 4 children who may experience social and emotional difficulties.

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Information about this children’s home

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

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Information about this children’s home

There were 2 children living in the home during this inspection.

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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

Overall judgement at last inspection: Requires improvement to be good

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good

Enforcement action since last inspection: none Inspection report for children’s home: 2807396 2

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

19/08/2025 Full Requires improvement to be good Inspection report for children’s home: 2807396 3

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Summary of findings

This home is judged good in all areas. The home is providing good quality care for children. Children and staff have developed positive and trusting relationships that help them to feel supported and cared for. Their health and education are well promoted. The children living at the home have made good progress.

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Summary of findings

Staff understand children’s vulnerabilities and risks. Children engage in discussion about risks. Managers and staff work collaboratively with other agencies to manage known and emerging risks.

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Summary of findings

Leaders and managers ensure that the home environment provides the best opportunities for children to achieve positive outcomes.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff adopt a thoughtful and creative approach to support new children moving into the home, ensuring that children’s individual emotional needs are recognised and responded to. Children already living in the home are consulted and actively involved in welcoming new arrivals, for example by speaking with them over the telephone before they move in. This enables children to start building relationships.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff have a strong understanding of children’s individual needs and know them well. Each child benefits from a range of personalised care plans, which support them to make sustained progress across different aspects of their lives. The staff work effectively within a multi-agency approach, ensuring that plans are aligned and consistently implemented. This coordinated approach provides children with stability.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

The children enjoy a range of activities and get to create lasting childhood memories filled with fun. Their feedback was very positive on their experiences and the relationships they share with the staff. One child stated, ‘this is home and it feels like these people are my family’. The staff really care about the children, and this shines through in how they talk about children, and how they advocate for them using a child-led therapeutic approach to their care.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff take action to ensure that appropriate services are in place to support children’s health needs. Staff discuss health plans with children in individual key-work sessions. As a result, children are supported to improve their overall health and well-being.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

The children’s guide requires updating to ensure that the version provided to children is current and accurate. The complaints section should be strengthened to include clearer information about how to access external agencies, ensuring that children understand how to raise concerns beyond the home if needed. Inspection report for children’s home: 2807396 4

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

The staff have established strong and effective relationships with children, which promote trust and emotional security. This has contributed to a reduction in risk-taking behaviours. For example, one child now goes missing less frequently, representing clear and positive progress for this child.

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

The registered manager ensures that staff have clear guidance to mitigate emerging and known risks for children. Individual safety plans are created in consultation with the local authority. These plans balance the management of risk and actions to support children to develop independence and make progress.

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

The children are actively involved in their care planning, and staff meet with them regularly to discuss their risk management plans. These plans are detailed and provide clear guidance to help staff understand how to keep children safer.

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

Children have regular key work sessions that focus on children’s individual needs in line with their care plans and current events in children’s lives. These sessions strengthen relationships and helps children to learn how to keep themselves safe.

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

However, some staff would benefit from additional specialist training to ensure they are fully equipped to respond to the full range of risks presented, including those related to self-harm and emotional well-being

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Leaders and managers are motivated, ambitious and committed to delivering good quality care. The senior leadership team is reflective, and managers are creating a learning culture that embraces curiosity and thoughtfulness, placing the child at the centre of the home’s plans. Leaders, managers and staff are knowledgeable about every aspect of children’s lives and are seeking for each child to achieve their best.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The registered manager has established a culture of respect and togetherness in the team. Every month, all staff attend a team day. This is a reflective day that develops staff’s understanding of how the home will meet the needs of the children, and their understanding of the home’s ethos and approach to care.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Staff enjoy their work and changes in the team are infrequent. This creates stability and consistency for children who live at the home.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The registered manager completes suitability assessments on new placement referrals. The manager ensures sustained stability in the home before a new child is admitted, and they admit only those whose needs can be met by the staff team. One child already Inspection report for children’s home: 2807396 5 living at the home was able to talk to a child before they moved into the home, to help them to feel welcome. Staff work effectively to support children to make progress and to deliver good quality care that meets the required standards. They also work well with other agencies. Their professional development is being supported through a personal development pack that provides opportunities for them to gain practice experience in a range of different areas. Inspection report for children’s home: 2807396 6

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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 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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Requirement Due date

lead and manage the home in a way that is consistent with the approach and ethos, and delivers the outcomes, set out in the home’s statement of purpose;

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ensure that staff work as a team where appropriate;

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ensure that staff have the experience, qualifications and skills to meet the needs of each child. (Regulation 13 (1)(a)(b) (2)(a)(c))

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Requirement Due date

In particular, the leadership and management team must ensure that all staff have suitable training in line with their model of care to help them to support children to make progress. 16 June 2026

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undertake appropriate continuing professional development;

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Requirement Due date

receive practice-related supervision by a person with appropriate experience; (Regulation 13(4)(a)(b)) 16 June 2026 Inspection report for children’s home: 2807396 7 In particular, the leadership and management team must ensure that staff receive regular supervision. The manager must ensure effective monitoring of supervision so that they have holistic oversight of staff support.

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Recommendations

 For children’s homes to be nurturing and supportive environments that meet the needs of their children, they will, in most cases, be homely, domestic environments. Homes should seek as far as possible to maintain a domestic rather than ‘institutional’ impression. In particular, the leadership and management team should ensure that staff are able to carry out administrative tasks away from the children’s living area. (‘Guide to the Children’s Homes Regulations, including the quality standards’, page 15, paragraph 3.9)

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Recommendations

 As part of reviewing and revising where appropriate the Statement of Purpose (regulation 16(3)(a)), the registered person should review and update the children’s guide as necessary, and make sure children are given an explanation of any changes. In particular, leaders and managers must ensure that the Children Guide is updated before providing children with a copy. (‘Guide to the Children’s Homes Regulations, including the quality standards’, page 24 paragraph 4.23)

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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: 2807396 8

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Children’s home details

Registered provider: Transform UK Communities Ltd

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: Shoreditch Tab Centre, 3 Godfrey Place, London E2 7NT

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Children’s home details

Registered manager: Hollie Camilleri-Denis

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Inspectors

Helen Daniel, Social Care Inspector Rubina Gani, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children’s home: 2807396 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 looked after children, safeguarding and child protection.

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Inspectors

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