Children's Home run by Ownlife Limited in Lewisham

Inspection report for children’s home: 2816103 1 OFSTED USE ONLY

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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 owned and managed by a private provider and can provide 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 manager were registered with Ofsted in May 2025.

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Information about this children’s home

At the time of this inspection, 3 children were living in the home. The inspectors spoke to all children as part of the 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

Date of last inspection: 20 October 2025

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good

Overall judgement at last inspection: good

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good

Enforcement action since last inspection: none Inspection report for children’s home: 2816103 2 OFSTED USE ONLY

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

20/10/2025 Full Good Inspection report for children’s home: 2816103 3 OFSTED USE ONLY

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Summary of findings

Children make good progress. They build strong relationships with staff, who support them to achieve in education, enjoy activities and plan their futures.

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Summary of findings

Children feel safe and staff use meaningful conversations that help children become more confident.

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Summary of findings

Leaders and managers drive improvement and embed reflective practice across the team. Staff receive good training and support.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Children make good progress from their starting points. One child said that the home is their ‘foundation’.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Children have positive relationships with staff. Staff encourage them to take part in activities they enjoy, such as football training, shopping and going to the cinema. Children spend time with their families, and staff develop strong relationships with wider family members.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Children achieve educationally. Two children are in full-time education, and staff support children to explore further education options. One child has a CV and is applying for part-time employment.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

When children move on from the home, staff maintain relationships and offer children continued support. This helps to ensure that these endings are calm, child centred and understood.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Children live in a welcoming and well-maintained home. Their bedrooms are spacious and personalised. This helps children to feel settled and develop a sense of ownership over where they live.

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

Children say that they feel safe living at the home. Staff have regular conversations with children that reflect their individual needs. These meaningful discussions help children feel secure and supported. This approach ensures that children contribute to decisions about their lives and have confidence in being heard.

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

Staff are equipped to respond to risks promptly and consistently. This improves children’s overall safety. Children’s risk assessments provide staff with clear actions, which they Inspection report for children’s home: 2816103 4 OFSTED USE ONLY

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

follow. They include detailed management analyses and are written in a thoughtful, child-centred way with strategies informed by children’s views.

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

Children complete their support plans with staff, which creates a joint understanding of how staff can provide the best help. Staff confidently put the strategies detailed in these plans into practice. Their consistent use of these approaches helps children settle, makes positive changes and develops increased confidence in managing difficult situations.

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

When children go missing, staff follow the agreed plan to reduce risks for children during this time. One child, however, regularly stayed at a peer’s address without local authority agreement. Leaders and managers did not escalate the need for an agreed plan, including how to safely return the child from this address in response to this emerging pattern.

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

Safe recruitment practice is strong. Leaders and managers thoroughly vet applicants as part of the recruitment process. These checks ensure that only safe, competent and suitable people work with children.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The registered manager drives service improvements, with children being at the centre of this work. The registered manager, deputy manager and care director develop meaningful relationships with each child. Together, they form a committed leadership team focused on ensuring that children receive high-quality care.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Leaders and managers critically analyse and implement learning from events. They embed reflective practice across the staff team. During regular supervision, staff receive support for their wellbeing and practice development. Supervision records do not show clear, measurable timescales for staff to complete development tasks, which creates drift.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Staff receive meaningful training and feel well supported by the leadership team. They confidently and effectively care for children because of the support and positive role modelling that leaders and managers provide.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The registered manager had not submitted a quality of care review to Ofsted. However, they complete regular weekly and monthly audits that track children’s progress and include feedback from children and staff, providing ongoing oversight of children’s experiences. Inspection report for children’s home: 2816103 5 OFSTED USE ONLY

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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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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 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

take effective action whenever there is a serious concern about a child’s welfare; (Regulation 12 (1) (2)(a)(i)(vi))

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must ensure that they agree plans with professionals to manage risk and children’s return when children frequently stay at known addresses without agreement. 7 August 2026

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must complete a review of the quality of care provided for children at least once every 6 months.

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Requirement Due date

In order to complete a quality of care review the registered person must establish and maintain a system for monitoring, reviewing and evaluating—

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Requirement Due date

the quality of care provided for children;

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the feedback and opinions of children about the children’s home, its facilities and the quality of care they receive in it;

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Requirement Due date

and any actions that the registered person considers necessary in order to improve or maintain the quality of care provided for children. 7 August 2026 Inspection report for children’s home: 2816103 6 OFSTED USE ONLY

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Requirement Due date

After completing a quality of care review, the registered person must produce a written report about the quality-of-care review and the actions which the registered person intends to take as a result of the quality of care review (“the quality of care review report”).

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Requirement Due date

supply to HMCI a copy of the quality-of-care review report within 28 days of the date on which the quality-of-care review is completed;

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Requirement Due date

and make a copy of the quality-of-care review report available on request to a placing authority, if the placing authority is not the parent of a child accommodated in the home. (Regulation 45 (1) (2)(a)(b)(c) (3)(4)(a)(b))

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Recommendation

 The registered person should have a workforce plan. The plan should include measurable target settings for supervision tasks. (‘Guide to the Children’s Homes Regulations, including the quality standards’, page 53, paragraph 10.8)

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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: 2816103 7 OFSTED USE ONLY

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: Legion House, 75 Lower Road, Kenley CR8 5NH

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Inspector

Richard Wyper, Social Care Inspector Tina Woolley, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children’s home: 2816103 8 OFSTED USE ONLY

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Inspector

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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