Children's Home run by Bright Futures Care Solutions Limited in Nottinghamshire

Inspection report for children’s home: 2849140 1 Registered provider: Bright Futures Care Solutions 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 operated by a private provider and can provide care for one child with social and emotional difficulties. The child living at the home moved in in October 2025.

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Information about this children’s home

The manager registered in September 2025.

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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: 1 December 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: 2849140 2

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

01/12/2025 Full Good Inspection report for children’s home: 2849140 3

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Summary of findings

The staff team know the child well and speak positively about them. They have high hopes for the child’s future. The child is settled, making encouraging progress and attending education. There is a plan for transition to a new education provision in the coming academic year. The child has developed positive relationships with staff and feels well cared for. Leaders and managers have made progress in embedding a new supervision format and have good oversight of incidents in the home. Safeguarding practice does not always reflect the current risks for the child.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

The child is comfortable and secure around the staff and has positive relationships with them. They choose to spend time with staff, who all speak fondly and warmly about the child. As a result of this relational approach, the child appeared content and settled at the home.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff know and understand the child’s wishes and feelings. The child is consulted with during house meetings and staff regularly write to them and explain decisions and outcomes to their requests and any concerns they may have raised. The child said they can talk to the staff. External professionals spoke positively about how well the team understand the child. Staff have recognised that the child’s voice could be more fully embedded in some parts of their care, for example in risk assessments and risk management plans. Leaders and managers recognise this may support the child to feel more involved in their care.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff ensure that decisions about life-story work are in the best interests of the child. They recognise the importance of being guided by the child as well as the professionals involved in their care. They have made decisions with the child about how life-story work is managed. As a result, the child can approach this when they feel ready to do so.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff support the child to access activities, to learn and have fun. Plans and activities include breaks away, trips out and a holiday in the summer. Staff have ensured the child participates in a broad range of cultural activities and celebrations at home, across a wide range of events. As a result of this, the home environment feels inclusive and fun to live in. The child is also learning about a wide spectrum of society.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff understand the importance of the child’s family. Contact with siblings has been carefully planned with relevant agencies. Staff also recognise the value of managing this in line with the child’s wishes. As a result, family time is well managed and not overwhelming. This has enabled the child to have continued relationships with family members. Inspection report for children’s home: 2849140 4 Staff have worked to support the child to access education. They are working with a specialist provider and consider the child’s previous educational experiences. Education provision has been secured for the coming academic year. Staff understand the importance of transition planning, and this is already in its early stages with the child. This should support the child to be prepared and ready for further education.

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

Staff have helped the child to feel safe in the home. They understand risks for the child well and risk management plans are clear and detailed. For example internet use has been a previous risk for the child. Staff have worked with the child to gradually and safely increase independence around internet use. As a result, the child can safely and age appropriately manage their internet use.

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

Staff manage any behaviour which may challenge safely and consistently. The use of physical intervention in the home is infrequent. When it has been used, it was the least restrictive measure. Management oversight is analytical and thorough. Staff recognise the child’s preferred communication style when reflecting with them about the use of physical intervention. Other incidents in the home have the same management oversight and good external communication with professionals. Managers are beginning to embed lessons learned and incidents are managed safely, with the child’s welfare being central.

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

Some safeguarding information in plans is out of date or no longer needed. This includes some incorrect information about risks posed to the child, which means risk management plans were not reflective of current risks. This does not support staff to know and understand how best to support the child.

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

Leaders and managers have not always ensured that safeguarding discussions are captured effectively. A discussion with the child that reduced a presenting risk was not accurately recorded. This could have led to inappropriate risk management practice. Managers are aware discussions should be captured effectively to promote evidence- based safeguarding and positive outcomes.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Leaders and managers want the best for the child. They are trying to ensure the child reaches their potential. This is evident in advocacy work, and having a solid understanding of the plan for the child going forward. This ethos has filtered through the team, who all clearly want the child to achieve and thrive.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Leaders and managers ensure they have regular supervision with the staff team. Managers recognised that a previous supervision template was not as child focused as it could have been and a new template was recently introduced. This new template is reflective, child focused and thorough. Team members consistently reported that supervision was frequent and helpful, both professionally and personally. Inspection report for children’s home: 2849140 5 Leaders and managers have a good grasp of the team’s strengths and areas for development. They speak positively about their team. Leaders and managers have already begun to implement reflective work. For example, managers recognised that a different approach by staff could have de-escalated a particular incident. This was reflected on by the registered manager and the consequence for the child was reviewed.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Leaders and managers understand the factors that may influence the child’s behaviours and are beginning to embed this knowledge with staff. They keep the child’s experience at the centre of this work and plan to continue to develop the team’s knowledge and approaches.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The registered manager is dual registered with another home, and the deputy manager also works across both homes. They have a clear plan and working arrangements to manage this and are both mindful of being visible for the teams. The effectiveness of this was evident with staff, who reported positively about the support and visibility of leaders.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Training was not fully up to date for all staff. Leaders and managers are considering implementing systems to ensure that training requirements are raised with team members in good time to enable training to be completed. Inspection report for children’s home: 2849140 6

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Recommendations

 The registered person should continually and actively assess the risks to each child and the arrangements in place to protect them. Historic or contextual safeguarding risks should be recorded as such. (‘Guide to the Children’s Homes Regulations, including the quality standards’, page 42, paragraph 9.5)  The registered person should be familiar with the home’s policies on record-keeping and understand the importance of careful, objective and clear recording. This includes recording of discussions that evidence risk reduction or management. (‘Guide to the Children’s Homes Regulations, including the quality standards’, page 62, paragraph 14.4)  The registered person should have a workforce plan which can fulfil the workforce- related requirements of regulation 16, schedule 1. This includes ensuring staff training is consistently up to date. (‘Guide to the Children’s Homes Regulations, including the

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Recommendations

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: 2849140 7

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Children’s home details

Registered provider: Bright Futures Care Solutions Limited

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: Suite E2, Lancaster House, 10 Sherwood Rise, Nottingham NG7 6JE

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Inspector

Dan Griffin, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children’s home: 2849140 8 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 children looked after, safeguarding and child protection.

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