Children's Home run by TS Children Services Ltd in Dudley

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2726003 1 Registered provider: TS Children Services Ltd

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Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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Information about this children’s home

This home registered with Ofsted in November 2023 and is privately owned. It provides care for up to 4 children who may experience social and emotional difficulties, as well as special educational needs and/or disabilities.

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Information about this children’s home

Two children have left since the full inspection because staff were unable to keep them safe or meet their needs. One child was living at the home at the time of this visit; they spoke briefly with the inspector.

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Information about this children’s home

The home has been without a registered manager since June 2025. A new manager has submitted their application to register with Ofsted.

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This monitoring visit

This home was judged inadequate at a full inspection on 21 and 22 April 2026. Ofsted imposed a restriction on the registration, meaning that no children could move into the home. The purpose of this monitoring visit was to consider the progress made by leaders in improving the quality and safety of children’s care and to determine whether the provider has complied with the restriction of accommodation.

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This monitoring visit

The inspection history of this home is poor. The home was registered in November 2023. Since then, the home has been judged inadequate 3 times due to concern about children’s safety, staff practice, planning for children, and significant shortfalls in leadership and management. The home has had its registration suspended on one occasion and restrictions put in place so that children were not permitted to move into the home on 2 further occasions. The provider has not demonstrated consistent adherence to the children’s homes regulations or that improvements can be sustained to ensure that children with complex lives can be cared for safely and effectively. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2726003 2 Despite the home being registered to care for 4 children, due to the restriction on the registration imposed after the last inspection staff are currently providing care to one child. Staff have been unable to safely support the needs of all of the children

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This monitoring visit

living in the home at the last inspection and 2 children moved out of the home as a result. Since caring for less children, significant incidents have reduced in frequency. This correlates to the more complex and significant risks those children faced. Staff know the current child well; they are aware of their vulnerabilities and mostly how to respond to these.

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This monitoring visit

Staff have only recently begun to work with other professionals to help the child access specialist services. However, staff have not been successful in helping the child to have a healthy daily routine. Staff have been unable to help the child develop a good sleep routine and they continue to spend a lot of time in their bedroom away from staff. This impacts negatively on their experiences and progress. Staff have been ineffective in supporting the child to overcome barriers to learning and the child’s educational progress remains poor.

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This monitoring visit

New systems and processes are in place, and leaders are starting to make changes intended to improve the quality of children’s care. As these changes are relatively new, they are not fully embedded. The long-term impact and effectiveness of new systems and processes is not yet tested or assured. Care planning arrangements have been reviewed. Leaders have reviewed the experiences of the 2 children who have moved on from the home since the last inspection. Findings from those reviews has informed new processes. There have been previous concerns about directors making poor care planning decisions that meant that one child moved into the home with only 15 minutes notice and without the knowledge of the manager or responsible individual. The responsible individual has given assurances that this will no longer happen. No children have moved into the home since the full inspection, so the effectiveness of these arrangements is not evidenced. The restriction of

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This monitoring visit

Leaders have begun to address staff development. They are in the process of completing a 4-week face-to-face training programme that they believe will better equip staff to meet the child’s needs. This is not yet embedded into practice and several of the areas of training are repeated from previous inspections when Ofsted has identified serious shortfalls in the care provided by staff in the home. Staff now receive supervision that provides opportunities for them to reflect on their work and supports their development, but this is also not yet embedded into practice to assess the impact on children’s care.

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This monitoring visit

Recruitment practice now ensures that checks that staff are suitable to work with children are obtained and action is being taken to support one staff member to achieve their outstanding required qualification. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2726003 3 Six requirements raised at the last inspection are met. One requirement is not met and is restated, and one requirement will be reviewed at the next full inspection.

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

21/04/2026 Full Inadequate 02/09/2025 Full Good 09/06/2025 Full Inadequate 04/09/2024 Full Good Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2726003 4

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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 with the given timescales.

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Requirement Due date

The education standard is that children make measurable progress towards achieving their educational potential and are helped to do so.

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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

help each child to achieve the child’s education and training targets, as recorded in the child’s relevant plans;

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Requirement Due date

support each child’s learning and development, including helping the child to develop independent study skills and, where appropriate, helping the child to complete independent study;

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Requirement Due date

understand the barriers to learning that each child may face and take appropriate action to help the child to overcome any such barriers;

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Requirement Due date

help each child to understand the importance and value of education, learning, training and employment;

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Requirement Due date

promote opportunities for each child to learn informally;

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Requirement Due date

raise any need for further assessment or specialist provision in relation to a child with the child’s education or training provider and the child’s placing authority;

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Requirement Due date

help a child who is excluded from school, or who is of compulsory school age but not attending school, to access educational and training support throughout the period of exclusion or non-attendance and to return to school as soon as possible; 5 June 2026 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2726003 5 help each child to attend education or training in accordance with the expectations in the child’s relevant plans. (Regulation 8 (1) (2)(a)(i)(ii)(iii)(iv)(v)(vii)(x))

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Requirement Due date

In particular, the registered person must support children to make academic progress and, when children do not have school places, support them to overcome barriers to learning and engage with home tutors to support their learning.

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Requirement Due date

This requirement was raised at the last inspection and is restated.

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must complete a review of the quality of care provided for children ("a quality of care review") 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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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

any actions that the registered person considers necessary in order to improve or maintain the quality of care provided for children.

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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

The system referred to in paragraph (2) must provide for ascertaining and considering the opinions of children, their parents, placing authorities and staff. (Regulation 45 (1) (2)(a)(b)(c) (4)(a) (5))

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Requirement Due date

This requirement was raised at the last inspection and is restated. 5 June 2026 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2726003 6

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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: 2726003 7

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Children’s home details

Registered provider: TS Children Services Ltd

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: Suite F3, Deansgate Offices, 62-70 Tettenhall Road, Wolverhampton WV1 4TH

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Inspector

Amy Richards, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2726003 8 to 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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