Children's Home run by Rising Star Homes Limited in Coventry

Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2869572 1 Registered provider: Rising Star Homes Limited

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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 privately owned and provides care for up to 3 children with social and emotional difficulties, or learning disabilities.

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Information about this children’s home

The home was registered in January 2026. The registered manager is suitably qualified.

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Information about this children’s home

At the time of the inspection, no children were living in the home.

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This monitoring visit

This children’s home was judged inadequate at the full inspection on 28 and 29 April 2026. Ofsted suspended the home’s registration as children were at risk due to serious and widespread failings to provide safe and effective care.

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This monitoring visit

The purpose of this monitoring visit was to review the provider’s adherence to the suspension notice. The inspector found that there was no evidence that children had been living in the home.

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This monitoring visit

At the last full inspection, 5 requirements were made. These were not considered and will be reviewed as part of the next inspection.

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This monitoring visit

The home environment is currently in the process of being redecorated and furnished. The layout of the home has also been considered to better meet the needs of children, to provide them with more communal space to relax. The home presents a welcoming and homely place for children to live. However, it is not ready for children to live in due to work being ongoing.

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This monitoring visit

The registered manager has not been in the home since the last inspection. A new interim manager has been appointed. The interim manager has completed a review of some policies and implemented new monitoring tools and systems to improve Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2869572 2 their oversight of the home and the quality of care provided for children. It is hoped that these tools will enable managers to identify any shortfalls in the care that children receive and to be proactive in addressing them. However, it has not yet been possible to measure how effective these are in practice, due to no children currently living in the home.

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This monitoring visit

Since the last inspection, only 2 staff have remained in post. One new staff member has been recruited. Recruitment for the home remains ongoing. Staff currently working in the home have completed some mandatory training, while other important training dates have been scheduled in. There is currently not enough staff in post to care for the number children the home is registered for.

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This monitoring visit

The planning and assessment process for children moving into the home has been reviewed and updated. The interim manager has implemented a suitable process and plan to ensure that essential information about potential children for the home is requested, assessed and planned for against the needs of the children already living there. Again, this process remains untested as the registration of the home remains suspended. Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2869572 3

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

28/04/2026 Full Inadequate Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2869572 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 quality and purpose of care standard is that children receive care from staff who—

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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

use this understanding to deliver care that meets children’s needs and supports them to fulfil their potential.

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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

understand and apply the home’s statement of purpose;

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Requirement Due date

understand and apply the home’s statement of purpose;

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Requirement Due date

protect and promote each child’s welfare;

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Requirement Due date

provide personalised care that meets each child’s needs, as recorded in the child’s relevant plans, taking account of the child’s background. (Regulation 6 (1)(a)(b) (2)(a)(b)(i)(ii)(iv))

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must ensure that children are provided with structured routines in line with children’s relevant plans. 16 August 2026

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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 in paragraph (1) requires the registered person to ensure—

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Requirement Due date

that staff— 16 August 2026 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2869572 5 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

help each child to understand how to keep safe;

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Requirement Due date

have the skills to identify and act upon signs that a child is at risk of harm;

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Requirement Due date

understand the roles and responsibilities in relation to protecting children that are assigned to them by the registered person;

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Requirement Due date

take effective action whenever there is a serious concern about a child’s welfare; and

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Requirement Due date

are familiar with, and act in accordance with, the home’s child protection policies. (Regulation 12 (1) (2)(a)(i)(ii)(iv)(v)(vi)(vii))

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must ensure that all children’s plans cover all known risks and give staff clear guidance to protect children from harm. These must be kept up to date. Additionally, staff must have the skills to identify that children are at risk of harm and act on these. The staff and manager must understand their roles and responsibilities to protect children and have an effective system in place to monitor any safeguarding concerns. This must include all actions and outcomes.

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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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Requirement Due date

helps children aspire to fulfil their potential; and

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Requirement Due date

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; 16 August 2026 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2869572 6 ensure that staff work as a team where appropriate;

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Requirement Due date

ensure that staff have the experience, qualifications and skills to meet the needs of each child;

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Requirement Due date

ensure that the home has sufficient staff to provide care for each child;

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Requirement Due date

ensure that the home’s workforce provides continuity of care to each child,

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Requirement Due date

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,

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Requirement Due date

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)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)(h))

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must ensure that there are suitable staff in post, with the necessary skills and experience to care for children. They must also ensure that there are effective systems in place to oversee the quality of care in the home to drive improvements.

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Requirement Due date

The care planning standard is that children—

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Requirement Due date

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

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Requirement Due date

have a positive experience of arriving at or moving on from the home.

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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

that children are admitted to the home only if their needs are within the range of needs of children for whom it is intended that the home is to provide care and accommodation, as set out in the home’s statement of purpose,

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Requirement Due date

that each child’s relevant plans are followed. (Regulation 14 (1)(a)(b) (2)(a)(c)) 16 August 2026 Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2869572 7 The registered person must ensure that effective systems are in place to assess children’s suitability to live in the home, considering all known risks. Additionally, they must follow children’s relevant plans and ensure that children have a positive experience arriving and leaving the home.

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Requirement Due date

the privacy of children is appropriately protected;

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Requirement Due date

children can access all appropriate areas of the children’s home’s premises; and

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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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is intended to safeguard each child accommodated in the home;

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Requirement Due date

is kept under review and, if necessary, revised; and

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Requirement Due date

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)(i)(ii)(iii)(iv))

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Requirement Due date

The registered person must ensure that children have access to all areas of the home. 16 August 2026

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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: 2869572 8

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Children’s home details

Registered provider: Rising Star Homes Limited

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: 134 Lillington Road, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire CV32 6LN

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Children’s home details

Responsible individual: Hazvinei Manyonga

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Inspector

Marianne Grandfield, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children’s home - monitoring visit: 2869572 9 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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