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[008.23] Exploring Care for Children with Complex Needs in Children’s Homes

The survey revealed that “complex needs” encompass various types of needs and risks, often requiring support from multiple partner agencies. Mental health needs, behavioral needs linked to safeguarding concerns, behavioral needs associated with learning difficulties, and physical health needs were identified as the primary categories contributing to complex needs. These areas, when combined, form the basis of the definition.

[006.22] Is OFSTED fit for purpose?

OFSTED is struggling with the lack of (experienced) inspectors, facing a situation where inspectors are leaving to other organizations and some due to their age. To make things worse, we are now expecting the minimum standards for supported accommodation, meaning that the number of inspectors needed will increase even more. I also believe that the current inspection framework is outdated and should be restructured together with the necessary changes to accommodate the new supported accommodation provisions and the changes that will potentially arise from the Children’s Social Care Review.

[013.21] Do we really need an independent visitor in children’s homes?

According to the Children’s Homes regulations, each setting needs to hire a person, independent, to visit the home monthly and produce a report where an assessment of the current situation is made, giving recommendations of what should be changed. This report is then, after receiving comments from the Registered Manager and Responsible Individual sent toContinue reading “[013.21] Do we really need an independent visitor in children’s homes?”

[012.21] Care Review, Children’s Homes and Supported Accommodation

There is, currently, a huge debate around children social care (and so welcome it is), due to news around the lack of resources, the lack of quality of some provisions, the risks some children are facing and the lack of a long-term plan to address all this (this list is, obviously, not exhaustive). I have been thinking about writing something about this, but usually I end up just writing some bits in some debates on twitter. This post is exactly about this. My view about the arguments, my ideas, focused on the specific area where I work: Children Residential Care.

[011.21] Just a thought…

Sometimes you can’t stop wondering if it makes sense to continue providing and running children’s homes for a maximum of 2 or 3 children, accepting and working with the “hard to reach” and high risk children… Maybe it would be better to do what others do… bigger properties and not accepting children with high risksContinue reading “[011.21] Just a thought…”

[020.19] there are teenagers that are not being dumped…

Maybe we need more regulation of this settings or, maybe, we just need the responsible organisations to develop a real monitoring. Maybe, we need to improve this settings or, maybe, we just need “that” monitoring to work and make sure that they are implementing the service they should be implemented.