“children's homes in Wokingham”

Wokingham · RG10 8NR · Part of Inmind Childrens Services Limited

Information about this children's home

This home provides care and accommodation for up to five children with emotional and/or behavioural difficulties. The home is privately owned and managed, providing services mainly to local authorities.

Wokingham · RG10 8NR · Part of Inmind Childrens Services Limited

Information about this children’s home

This home provides care and accommodation for up to five children who have emotional and/or behavioural difficulties. The home, privately owned and managed, provides services mainly to local authorities.

Wokingham · RG10 8NR · Part of Inmind Childrens Services Limited

Information about this children’s home

This home provides care and accommodation for up to five children who have emotional and/or behavioural difficulties. The home is privately owned and managed, providing services mainly to local authorities.

Wokingham · RG10 8NR · Part of Inmind Childrens Services Limited

Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: inadequate

The managers and staff are making efforts to improve community relationships. This home has experienced tensions in its relationships with neighbours, resulting in a number of complaints made and the local district council issuing a community safety notice. The complaints from neighbours have decreased, and the managers and staff have made progress in meeting the requirements from the community safety notice. The managers have plans to improve local relationships, with the children and staff helping the community with cleaning and improving a local play area. The managers and staff value the local community and wish to become a valued part of it. Inspection report children's home: SC476185 7

Wokingham · RG10 8NR · Part of Inmind Childrens Services Limited

Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: inadequate

The managers and staff are making efforts to improve community relationships. This home has experienced tensions in its relationships with neighbours, resulting in a number of complaints made and the local district council issuing a community safety notice. The complaints from neighbours have decreased, and the managers and staff have made progress in meeting the requirements from the community safety notice. The managers have plans to improve local relationships, with the children and staff helping the community with cleaning and improving a local play area. The managers and staff value the local community and wish to become a valued part of it. Inspection report children's home: SC476185 7

Wokingham · RG10 8NR · Part of Inmind Childrens Services Limited

Information about this children’s home

The service is a residential school, also registered as a children’s home, to provide care for up to 13 young people in three small homes on one site. The service is owned by a private company and provides care for young people who have emotional and behavioural difficulties.

Wokingham · RG10 8NR · Part of Inmind Childrens Services Limited

Information about this children's home

The service is a residential school, also registered as a children’s home, to provide care for up to 13 young people in three small homes on one site. The service is owned by a private company and provides care for young people who have emotional and/or behavioural difficulties.

Wokingham · RG10 8NR · Part of Inmind Childrens Services Limited

Information about this children’s home

The service is a residential school, also registered as a children’s home to provide care for 30 young people in five small homes on one site. One home provides care and accommodation for expectant mothers and young mothers with babies. Another home provides short-term assessment facilities. The service is owned by a private company and provides care for young people who have experienced emotional and psychological trauma.

Wokingham · RG10 8NR · Part of Inmind Childrens Services Limited

Information about this children's home

The service is a residential school, also registered as a children’s home to provide care for 30 young people in five small homes on one site. One home provides care and accommodation for expectant mothers and young mothers with babies. Another home provides short-term assessment facilities. The service is owned by a private company and provides care for young people who have experienced emotional and psychological trauma.

Wokingham · RG10 8NR · Part of Inmind Childrens Services Limited

Information about this children's home

The service is a residential school, also registered as a children’s home, to provide care for up to 30 young people in five small homes on one site. The service is owned by a private company and provides care for young people who have experienced emotional and psychological trauma. One home specifically provides care and accommodation for expectant mothers and young mothers with babies. Another home provides short-term assessment facilities. 

Wokingham · RG10 8NR · Part of Inmind Childrens Services Limited

Information about this children's home

This service is also registered as a residential school and provides care and accommodation for up to 14 children and young people in three small homes on one site. The service is owned by a private company and provides care for children and young people who have emotional and/or behavioural difficulties.

Wokingham · RG10 8NR · Part of Inmind Childrens Services Limited

Information about this children's home

This service is also registered as a residential school and provides care and accommodation for up to 14 children and young people in three small homes on one site. The service is owned by a private company and provides care for children and young people who have emotional and/or behavioural difficulties.

Wokingham · RG10 8NR · Part of Inmind Childrens Services Limited

Recommendations

 For children’s homes to be nurturing and supportive environments that meet the needs of their children, they will, in most cases, be homely, domestic environments. Children’s homes must comply with relevant health and safety legislations (alarms, food, hygiene, etc.); however, in doing so, homes should seek as far as possible to maintain a domestic rather than ‘institutional’ impression. (‘Guide to the children’s homes regulations including the quality standards’, page 15, paragraph 3.9)

Wokingham · RG10 8NR · Part of Inmind Childrens Services Limited

The children's home provision is good because:

a well-trained staff team providing a coherent approach to the care of young people. Young people should receive advice and guidance to prevent them smoking. The manager must provide challenge to a placing local authority in relation to poor care planning in respect of a young person.

Wokingham · RG10 8NR · Part of Inmind Childrens Services Limited

What the inspection judgements mean

An outstanding children's home provides highly effective services that contribute to significantly improved outcomes for children and young people who need help and protection and care. Their progress exceeds expectations and is sustained over time. A good children's home provides effective services that help, protect and care for children and young people and have their welfare safeguarded and promoted. In a children's home that requires improvement , there are no widespread or serious failures that create or leave children being harmed or at risk of harm. The welfare of looked after children is safeguarded and promoted. Minimum requirements are in place, however, the children's home is not yet delivering good protection, help and care for children and young people. A children's home that is inadequate is providing services where there are widespread or serious failures that create or leave children and young people being

Wokingham · RG10 8NR · Part of Inmind Childrens Services Limited

What the inspection judgements mean

An outstanding children's home provides highly effective services that contribute to significantly improved outcomes for children and young people who need help and protection and care. Their progress exceeds expectations and is sustained over time. A good children's home provides effective services that help, protect and care for children and young people and have their welfare safeguarded and promoted. In a children's home that requires improvement , there are no widespread or serious failures that create or leave children being harmed or at risk of harm. The welfare of looked after children is safeguarded and promoted. Minimum requirements are in place, however, the children's home is not yet delivering good protection, help and care for children and young people. A children's home that is inadequate is providing services where there are widespread or serious failures that create or leave children and young people being

Wokingham · RG10 8NR · Part of Inmind Childrens Services Limited

Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: inadequate

Children in this home continue to receive inconsistent care from the staff and managers. Overall, their experiences are inadequate because they are not receiving the services that they require to give them the help and support they need to make progress. The staff and managers’ understanding of risk and vulnerability in relation to children is not good and exposes children to risk. At the time of completing this inspection, the home has a restriction notice in place. This was imposed by Ofsted as a result of the home not adequately meeting compliance notices issued following the last interim inspection. This means that the home has not been able to admit new children, restricting it to no more than seven children at any one time. This notice is subject to review.

Wokingham · RG10 8NR · Part of Inmind Childrens Services Limited

Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: inadequate

Children in this home continue to receive inconsistent care from the staff and managers. Overall, their experiences are inadequate because they are not receiving the services that they require to give them the help and support they need to make progress. The staff and managers’ understanding of risk and vulnerability in relation to children is not good and exposes children to risk. At the time of completing this inspection, the home has a restriction notice in place. This was imposed by Ofsted as a result of the home not adequately meeting compliance notices issued following the last interim inspection. This means that the home has not been able to admit new children, restricting it to no more than seven children at any one time. This notice is subject to review.

Wokingham · RG10 8NR · Part of Inmind Childrens Services Limited

The children's home provision is good because:

 Young people live in a safe environment. They are safeguarded by good staff practice, with detailed risk assessments and risk management plans that are understood and implemented consistently by the staff group.

Wokingham · RG10 8NR · Part of Inmind Childrens Services Limited

Overall experiences and progress of children and young people: inadequate

The staff and managers do not prioritise the health and well-being needs of children sufficiently. The majority of children continue to smoke tobacco regularly, which is a significant health risk. The managers and staff have not helped children to reduce or stop smoking. For example, there is no health advice provided by medical professionals to help children quit or reduce smoking. There is no evidence of staff completing individual work with children regarding the dangers of smoking, and children’s individual health plans fail to demonstrate how staff will help children with this worrying behaviour. Staff appear to have lowered their expectations regarding how they can bring about change for children in respect of smoking and accepted smoking as the ‘norm’ at this home. Inspectors found that one child was openly smoking a vapour device in the home unperturbed by staff being present. Inspection report children's home: SC476185 6