Children's Home run by Compass Children’s Homes Ltd in Leicestershire

Inspection report for children's home: 2613483 1 Registered provider: Compass Children's 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 home is owned by a private company. It provides care for up to 5 children who may experience social and emotional difficulties.

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Information about this children's home

At the time of this inspection, 5 children were living in the home and 2 children contributed to the inspection.

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Information about this children's home

The registered manager post is vacant. The acting manager has applied for registration with Ofsted.

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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: 13 January 2026

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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: 2613483 2

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

13/01/2026 Full Good 18/03/2025 Full Good 27/02/2024 Full Good 28/11/2022 Full Good Inspection report for children's home: 2613483 3

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Summary of findings

Children benefit from stable relationships with staff, who know them well. Staff support children's education and emotional wellbeing and guide them toward achieving their future aspirations. Children experience consistent care. This promotes their safety and progress. Managers have strengthened safeguarding processes, staff development and management oversight. External professionals and parents' feedback reflects these improvements. The overall quality of written records has also improved. Some records still require greater accuracy and more child-centred language. Overall, children experience good-quality care that supports their wellbeing and progress.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Children regularly share their views about the home with staff and managers. Staff gather feedback through key-work sessions, child-focused meetings and questionnaires. The manager meets with children to discuss their experiences. This ensures that children's wishes and feelings are heard.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff and the psychologist, who supports the home, help the children with their emotional wellbeing. Independent advocates also visit children. Children feel able to talk about their experiences, and staff's support is responsive to each child's individual emotional needs.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Children enjoy a range of experiences both in and out of the home. They take part in activities, holidays and cultural events that reflect their interests. Children receive written daily diaries from the staff that capture their achievements, special moments and everyday experiences. This helps children to build lasting memories of their time in the home.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff promote children's education and future aspirations. All children attend education and understand the next steps in their learning. Children who have completed their GCSE's have applied for college places. Staff encourage children to achieve their goals and plan for adulthood. This helps children to develop confidence in their future.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

Staff work well with external professionals involved in children's care. Review meetings support shared planning and timely information-sharing. External professionals describe communication with staff as open and child focused. Managers work with external professionals to secure the services that children need. This helps children to receive coordinated care.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: good

One child has moved into the home since the last inspection. Managers planned the move and completed initial assessments to support the transition. Managers should continue to pursue all documentation from the placing authority. This will ensure that the child's placement plan reflects their assessed needs. Inspection report for children's home: 2613483 4

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

Staff understand children's risks and how these affect their day-to-day lives. Risk assessments provide staff with guidance to manage these risks. Children also have 24- hour support plans to guide daily care. One child's plan contains conflicting guidance about how the child spends their time away from the home and staff supervision. This reduces the clarity for staff and hampers their efforts to provide consistent care.

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

Staff respond appropriately when incidents occur. Children's records are sufficiently detailed, reflective and child centred. Staff complete direct work with children to help explore what happened and how to stay safe.

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

Staff know the children well and understand the triggers to children becoming distressed. They respond early by offering reassurance and consistent behavioural boundaries. Staff receive training in de-escalation and undertaking physical intervention safely. As a result, physical intervention is rare.

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

Staff responded promptly when a child went missing from the home. They followed the missing-from-care protocol and ensured that a return home discussion was completed when the child returned home. Staff reviewed and updated the child's relevant records to reflect emerging risks and behaviours. There was effective collaboration with external professionals to provide consistent support and guidance to the child to prevent a reoccurrence. Staff offered reassurance while maintaining clear boundaries, helping the child to understand risks and make safer choices.

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

Staff manage children's medication safely. They receive training before administering medication to children. Medication records identify each child's prescribed medicines and administration guidance. Two medication errors occurred during family time arrangements. Staff identified these promptly and shared learning. This prevents similar errors occurring again.

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

Managers have strengthened safeguarding oversight. If there any allegations against staff, investigations take place, with clear outcomes and agreed follow-up actions. However, records relating to complaints and concerns span a number of different recording systems. A more consistent approach would strengthen oversight and help to identify emerging themes.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Managers know children well and understand their individual needs. They speak confidently about children's starting points when they moved to the home and strengths and vulnerabilities. This helps them to make informed decisions about children's care and provide staff with the direction and guidance they need to provide good and safe care. Inspection report for children's home: 2613483 5 Managers have made progress in developing a stable group of staff. Staff describe managers as approachable and supportive. Improved staff retention provides children with greater consistency in the care they receive. Positive relationships between staff and children have been observed on inspection.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Staff receive regular supervision that encourages reflective care practice. Managers understand the strengths of individual staff and identify areas for development. Training reflects the needs of the children living in the home and means staff are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to provide children with good care. Managers have introduced research-informed practice to further develop staff knowledge. This demonstrates a commitment to continuous improvement.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Managers have strengthened approaches to monitoring the quality of care being provided. Consequently, this has led to staff improving the quality of their written records. However, some written records would be further strengthened by staff using more child-centred language to describe children's experiences.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: good

Staff meetings provide opportunities to discuss children's progress, review practice and share learning. Managers use these meetings to communicate expectations and identify areas for further development. Staff describe improved communication and say they work more effectively as a team. External professional feedback reflects continued improvement across the home. Inspection report for children's home: 2613483 6

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Recommendations

 The registered person should ensure that staff continually and actively assess the risks to each child and the arrangements in place to protect them. Where there are safeguarding concerns for a child, their placement plan, agreed between the home and their placing authority, must include details of the steps the home will take to manage any assessed risks on a day-to-day basis. ('Guide to the Children's Homes Regulations, including the quality standards,' page 42, paragraph 9.5)

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Recommendations

 The registered person should ensure that staff are familiar with the home's policies on record-keeping and understand the importance of careful, objective and clear recording. Staff should record information about 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)

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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: 2613483 7

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Children's home details

Registered provider: Compass Children's Homes Limited

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Children's home details

Registered provider address: Compass Community Ltd, 3 Rayns Way, Syston, Leicester LE7 1PF

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Inspectors

Susie Vere, Social Care Inspector Rachael Jones, Social Care Inspector Inspection report for children's home: 2613483 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 looked after children, safeguarding and child protection.

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