Angel UK Care Supported Accommodation Service

Inspection report for supported accommodation provider - monitoring visit: Angel UK Care Supported Accommodation Service Angel UK Care Supported Accommodation Service

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Registered provider: Angel UK Care Limited

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Inspected under the social care common inspection framework

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provider

The service was registered with Ofsted on 4 April 2024 to provide ring-fenced shared accommodation and single occupancy. The nominated individual is also the director. The registered service manager left in January 2025.

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provider

At the time of this visit, the provider had 2 shared properties and could accommodate up to 10 children. Living in one shared house were 2 children, and a third child was admitted on the same day as this visit. The provider did not have any single-occupancy accommodation.

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This monitoring visit

The purpose of this monitoring visit was to monitor compliance with the notice reissued following the monitoring visit on 2 June 2026, regarding the leadership and management of the supported accommodation service. The main concerns related to the provider’s use of single-occupancy accommodation and the admission of children not ready for supported accommodation. It was also to consider concerns raised about the quality of this provider’s staff recruitment practices.

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This monitoring visit

The compliance notice regarding the leadership and management standard for supported accommodation has been met. The provider has taken the steps specified in the notice to improve the service. At the time the compliance notice was issued, the provider provided single-occupancy supported accommodation, which was not in line with its statement of purpose or conditions of registration. The child required care and intensive staff support. The provider has removed this address from the supported accommodation registration and is applying to register a children’s home. Inspection report for supported accommodation provider - monitoring visit: Angel UK Care Supported Accommodation Service The supported accommodation service is now provided in line with the statement of purpose. Children admitted to the service are suitable for supported accommodation. The staffing levels are appropriately in line with the provision of supported

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This monitoring visit

accommodation. The staff demonstrate a suitable understanding of the risks to children receiving support, and they promote children’s welfare and safety.

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This monitoring visit

There has been no registered service manager in post for approximately 19 months.

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The provider’s staff recruitment practices are not safe. Allowing people to start working with vulnerable children without the correct and thorough checks puts children at unnecessary risk. During this visit, only one out of 3 recently recruited staff members had been suitably vetted. Weaknesses in staff recruitment practices have been previously identified during Ofsted’s visits. As a result, a compliance notice has been issued to improve the quality of staff recruitment practices.

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This monitoring visit

The requirements raised at the last full inspection that are not subject to the compliance notices are outside the scope of this visit. They will be reviewed at the next full inspection. Inspection report for supported accommodation provider - monitoring visit: Angel UK Care Supported Accommodation Service

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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 Supported Accommodation (England) Regulations 2023 and the ‘Guide to the Supported Accommodation Regulations, including Quality Standards’. The registered person(s) must comply within the given timescales.

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Requirement Due date

*The registered person must recruit staff using recruitment procedures that are designed to ensure children’s safety.

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full and satisfactory information is available in relation to the individual in respect of each of the matters in Schedule 1. (Regulation 17 (1) (3)(d)) 18 October 2026

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The registered provider and the registered service manager must, having regard to—

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the category or categories of supported accommodation provided by the supported accommodation undertaking concerned, carry on or manage that undertaking with sufficient care, competence and skill. (Regulation 13 (1)(d)(e)) 18 October 2026

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The registered provider must appoint an individual to manage the supported accommodation undertaking if—

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there is no registered service manager in respect of the undertaking, and

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is not, or does not intend to be, in day-to-day charge of the supported accommodation undertaking. 18 October 2026 Inspection report for supported accommodation provider - monitoring visit: Angel UK Care Supported Accommodation Service If the registered provider appoints a person to manage the supported accommodation undertaking, the registered provider must, without delay, give the CIECSS notice of—

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the name of the person so appointed, and

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the date on which the appointment takes effect. (Regulation 14 (1)(a)(b) (2)(a)(b))

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Requirement Due date

*These requirements are subject to a compliance notice.

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Information about this inspection

The purpose of this visit was to follow up information received by Ofsted and/or to ensure that the supported accommodation provider was complying with regulation.

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Information about this inspection

This inspection was carried out under the Care Standards Act 2000. Inspection report for supported accommodation provider - monitoring visit: Angel UK Care Supported Accommodation Service

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Supported accommodation provider details

Registered provider: Angel UK Care Limited

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Inspector

Seka Graovac, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for supported accommodation provider - monitoring visit: Angel UK Care Supported Accommodation Service 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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