Children's Home run by Adeza Care Homes Limited in Waltham Forest

Inspection report for children’s home: SC032468 1 SC032468

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Registered provider: Adeza Care Homes Limited

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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 children’s home that is registered to care for up to 4 children, aged between 14 and 18, with social, emotional and mental health difficulties.

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Information about this children’s home

There were 2 children living at the home at the time of the inspection.

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Information about this children’s home

A registered manager is in post and is responsible for managing two homes in the organisation.

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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: good

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good

Enforcement action since last inspection: none Inspection report for children’s home: SC032468 2

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

29/04/2025 Full Good 06/08/2024 Full Good 20/11/2023 Full Requires improvement to be good 11/10/2022 Full Good Inspection report for children’s home: SC032468 3

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Summary of findings

Staff provide a warm and supportive environment where children are happy and enjoy activities tailored to their interests. Staff know the children well, listen to their views and support their education, independence and future planning. Children understand how to raise concerns should they need to and share their wishes and feelings with staff. Risk assessments are regularly updated, although learning from missing-from-home incidents and identifying patterns needs to be strengthened. Staff work effectively with partner agencies. However, staff are not always proactive in looking for children when they are missing from home. The manager has a clear vision for the home, has effective oversight, supports staff and has positive working relationships with partner agencies.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Children are happy at home and engage in activities specific to their likes, interests and hobbies, including swimming, going to the cinema, baking cakes and socialising with their friends. These experiences help children to build and maintain friendships, and support their social skills and emotional wellbeing.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff have developed positive relationships with the children and have a good understanding of their individual needs and experiences and take an active interest in their day-to-day lives. Children are encouraged to express their views, wishes and feelings, and staff respond and act on their views when appropriate to do so.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Children are making good progress from their individual starting points. They engage well in education and staff advocate for children’s educational preferences. When children move into the home, staff ensure that applications for new educational provisions are completed to reduce delays in children accessing education.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff encourage children to develop age-appropriate independence skills, to prepare them for their future. These include money management, cooking and personal hygiene skills, which help to prepare them for adulthood.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Children know how to make a complaint and are confident in raising any worries or concerns with staff. Children report that they feel listened to, and staff ensure that any worries they have are responded to.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Key-work sessions are detailed and provide good insight into children’s experiences, wishes, feelings and views. Records demonstrate that children engage positively in discussions that support them to make progress. However, there are inconsistencies in the recording of dates and times for some key-work sessions involving significant conversations. This reduces the accuracy of records. However, this has not had an impact on children. Inspection report for children’s home: SC032468 4

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

Staff have a good understanding of children’s risk and vulnerabilities and understand the strategies in place to reduce risks for children. Staff discuss risks with children to help them better understand why staff maybe worried. This helps children feel safer and gives them the knowledge to make safer choices.

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

Risk assessments are up kept up to date. Children are supported to understand potential risks and their views are captured in risk assessments. However, staff do not always identify lessons from missing-from-home incidents. They do not fully understand patterns for when children leave, or how to lower future risks.

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

When children go missing from home, staff escalate their concerns to other professionals, including the police and social workers. Staff do try to stay in contact with the children. However, they do not always go and look for the child but wait for them to return home. This does not demonstrate a proactive approach to try and return children home safely. Good multi-agency working helps staff, police, specialist exploitation officers, and social workers share information, identify risk-reduction strategies, and keep children safe.

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

Newly appointed staff are vetted before they work in the home. However, on one occasion, verification of why staff left their previous employment when working with children or vulnerable adults was not obtained.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The manager has a good understanding of the strengths and areas for development in the home. She has a clear ethos and vision for the home to make it safe and welcoming for the children She is supported by the responsible individual, homes manager, case leaders and the operations supervisor to ensure that there is good oversight and management of the home. The manager knows the children well and strives for the best possible care and outcomes for them.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Staff are well supported by the manager and receive regular supervision alongside team meetings and emergency staff meetings when needed if there are specific issues or concerns. One staff member shared that the manager is very supportive, and that the team members are supportive of each other.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Staff receive training to ensure that they have the knowledge and skills to care for the children and meet their needs. Training also includes staff wellbeing and therapeutic sessions. This helps ensure that staff’s emotional wellbeing is supported.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

The manager is a good advocate for children and appropriately challenges other professionals if she does not believe decisions made are in the best interests of the children. Inspection report for children’s home: SC032468 5 Leaders and managers have positive professional working relationships with multi- agency partners. The manager keeps social workers and other professionals updated with the children’s progress and any challenges they experience, to support the care planning for children. Inspection report for children’s home: SC032468 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, 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 in paragraph (1) requires the registered person to ensure— that staff—

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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; and

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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)) 5 October 2026

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Requirement Due date

The registered person may permit an individual to start work at the home despite the fact that the requirement in paragraph (3)(d) has not been met if—

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Requirement Due date

full and satisfactory information in respect of the individual has been obtained in relation to the matters in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 2. (Regulation 32 (7)(b)) 5 October 2026

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Recommendations

 Staff should be familiar with the home’s policies on record keeping and understand the importance of careful, objective, and clear recording. Staff should record information on individual children in a non-stigmatising way that distinguishes between fact, opinion and third-party information. Information about the child must always be recorded in a way that will be helpful to the child. (‘Guide to the Children’s Homes Regulations, including the quality standards’, page 62, paragraph 14.4)  The registered person is responsible for deciding what each review should focus on, based on the specific circumstances of the home at that particular time and any areas of high risk to the children that the home is designed to care for, such as missing or exploitation. They will also consider what information or data recorded in the home will form part of the evidence base for their analysis and conclusions. (‘Guide to the

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Recommendations

Inspection report for children’s home: SC032468 7 Children’s Homes Regulations, including the quality standards’, page 64, paragraph 15.4)

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Information about this inspection

Inspector 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: SC032468 8

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Children’s home details

Registered provider: Adeza Care Homes Limited

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: C/O Michael Filiou Ltd Salisbury House, 81 High Street, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire EN6 5AS

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Inspector

Rubina Gani, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children’s home: SC032468 9 regulates and inspects 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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