Children's Home run by SJD Homes Limited in Bromley

Inspection report for children's home: 2769457 1 Registered provider: SJD 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 privately owned and provides care for up to 5 children who experience social and emotional difficulties. The home and the manager registered with Ofsted in May 2024. The manager is suitably qualified.

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Information about this children’s home

At the time of this inspection, 2 children were living in the home.

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Overall experiences and progress of

children and young people, taking into account good

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Overall experiences and progress of

How well children and young people are helped and protected good

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Overall experiences and progress of

The effectiveness of leaders and managers outstanding

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Overall experiences and progress of

Overall judgement at last inspection: good

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Overall experiences and progress of

Enforcement action since last inspection: none Inspection report for children's home: 2769457 2

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Inspection date Inspection type Inspection judgement

19/08/2025 Full Good 09/10/2024 Full Good Inspection report for children's home: 2769457 3

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Summary of findings

Children have made good progress from their individual starting points since living in the home. Children’s education, confidence and independence have improved. Managers advocate for children effectively to ensure that children have access to additional support, so they are more able to engage in education. As a result, children have made considerable progress in being able to consistently access education.

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Summary of findings

The registered manager has high expectations of staff and ensures that practice in the home is consistent with the aims and objectives set out in the statement of purpose. Managers provide consistent and highly effective services for children. The quality of care has led to sustained improvements in the lives of most children living in the home.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: Good

Children are supported to develop and sustain trusting relationships by experienced, motivated, thoughtful and committed staff who have a range of skills. Children’s plans reflect their needs and are aligned to the local authority care plan. They clearly illustrate how staff can meet children’s needs, and the child’s voice is captured well in their plans. Children enjoy a sense of belonging and stability, and this is helping them make good progress. A social worker told the inspector, ‘Managers know the children exceptionally well and have developed trusting relationships with them. The culture within the home appears nurturing, supportive and focused on meeting individual needs.’

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: Good

Children’s records are comprehensive, child focused and sensitively written. Language that cares is a strong theme in all the documents. This will help children understand their experiences if they review their files in adulthood.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: Good

Children participate in weekly house meetings where they discuss their views about their preferred social activities and menu choices. Meetings provide an opportunity for children to contribute to daily life in the home. Children are encouraged and supported to have open conversations with each other. These interactions support children to develop empathy and social skills.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: Good

Children have been supported to develop a range of recreational interests such as drama, piano lessons and arts and crafts. This is helping children to become more confident and develop life skills. Children with communication needs are supported to understand their daily activities through visual aids and prompts. This helps to reduce anxiety and uncertainty for children.

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Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: Good

Children benefit from staff promoting connectivity with their parents, sisters and brothers. Important people to children are actively encouraged to visit the home. Inspection report for children's home: 2769457 4

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

Children receive help and protection from considerate staff who understand their needs. Individual risk assessments and care plans are effective in supporting staff to keep children safe. They describe children’s needs, triggers to behaviours that challenge and strategies to de-escalate and reduce harmful behaviour.

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

Staff encourage positive behaviour through effectively praising and celebrating children’s achievements and by providing incentives. Clear and consistent boundaries contribute to children feeling safe and secure. Consequences are proportionate and help children to understand the impact of their behaviour on themselves and others.

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

Missing-from-home procedures are robust. Staff have a relentless focus on children’s welfare when they are missing from home, and they are persistent in their efforts to try to locate children to persuade them to return home.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: Outstanding

The highly effective registered manager is ambitious for children and has developed a supportive working culture that has created the conditions for success, so staff and children are able to thrive. The registered manager knows the service strengths and areas for development exceptionally well and welcomes feedback from the monthly independent visitor and responsible individual to continually develop the service.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: Outstanding

The managers and staff know the children extremely well. Managers are child focused and talk about children with unconditional positive regard. Managers highly value children’s contributions to running the home. The high level of participation empowers children and ensures that they are enabled to influence and shape the care being provided. Children’s records are reviewed and updated on a regular basis, so they reflect children’s current needs.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: Outstanding

Staff create detailed records that fully illustrate children’s progress. Staff attend multi- agency meetings, such as strategy discussions and stability meetings, to share information about their knowledge of children’s presenting risk and needs. This ensures that assessments and plans are up to date and reflect children’s current needs.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: Outstanding

Managers and staff are highly aspirational for all children and promote high-quality care. Children benefit from managers who are relentless in advocating on their behalf to ensure that their needs are met. When there has not been an effective and timely response, managers escalate their concerns to senior leaders in the local authority.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: Outstanding

Leaders and managers have excellent collaborative working relationships with local authorities that ensure high-quality care experiences for children. A social worker told the inspector, ‘Communication between the home and children’s services is consistently excellent. Managers maintain regular contact, provide good-quality information, attend Inspection report for children's home: 2769457 5 meetings and work collaboratively with professionals to promote positive outcomes for children.’

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: Outstanding

Leaders have created a comprehensive workforce development plan that illustrates leaders’ ambitions going forward. Leaders and managers are creative in their approach to staff development and have created research-based practice development sessions and live-practice coaching sessions to develop staff. The ambition is to provide staff with an opportunity to reflect on current practice themes and their intervention with vulnerable children. This is in addition to a comprehensive training programme.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: Outstanding

Appraisal performance objectives are linked to the children’s home quality standards. This ensures staff development is focused on delivering high standards of care to meet children’s needs.

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The effectiveness of leaders and managers: Outstanding

Staff benefit from supervision that provides space to reflect on children’s progress, learning from quality-assurance activity and their progress in meeting their performance objectives. Succession planning is supported by an inspirational ‘Excellence Programme’ that promotes career progression. This supports workforce recruitment and retention and benefits children through sustaining positive relationships with trusted staff.

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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: 2769457 6

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Children’s home details

Registered provider address: 81 Suite, 31 Lee High Road, London SE13 0NS

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Inspector

Nicki Shaw, His Majesty’s Inspector Inspection report for children's home: 2769457 7 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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