Services

E-Quality provides a comprehensive independent regulation 44 inspection service to children’s residential homes and semi-independent provisions.


This service is compliant with regulation 44 requirements outlined in the children's homes regulations 2015.

E-Quality will provide regulation 44 inspections on an independent level. Our first visit will be a planned visit and the aim will be to ensure that your home is equipped to ensure the best outcomes for children and young people. We will audit the daily running of the home and will offer suggestions and guidance in order to keep your home operating towards the children's home's regulations and quality standards.

The inspection visit will look at how the home or unit operates on a day-to-day basis whilst considering how the young people’s needs are identified and met, all of which will be measured against the children's home's regulations and quality standards in April 2015. Any suggested areas of development will be discussed with staff where appropriate to do so and reported together with recommendations for improvement.

E-Quality will provide a mixture of announced and unannounced site visits. Staff, children and young people, and families of the young people will be interviewed with their consent coupled with a visual inspection of the building and surrounding environment completed. A comprehensive report will be produced following the inspection which will offer recommendations.

All matters raised by the young people or staff, IRO, social worker, or parents where applicable and with their consent, will be included in each report provided that it is appropriate to do so.


E-Quality will take responsibility to circulate Regulation 44 reports to the responsible person, the registered person, or persons deputizing in the registered manager's absence the children's placing authorities and Ofsted. This can be ratified in the initial meeting.

Summary of Criteria for Regulation 44 Inspections

Quality of care

  • Young person’s interviews

  • Young people inductions

  • Parents and relatives views of services provided at the home

  • Social workers, IRO, and other professional's views of services provided at the home

  • Complaints systems

Safeguarding

  • Absent and missing episodes recording

  • Risk assessment plans

  • Impact risk assessments

  • Accidents and injuries reporting

  • Privacy and confidentiality

  • Visitors logs

Outcomes for young people

  • Wishes, views, feelings

  • Emotional wellbeing

  • Personal progression

  • Safety

  • Medication and medical treatment

  • Education and pathway plan

Leadership & Management

  • Supervisions, appraisals, management checks

  • Safer recruitment

  • Continuity of care

  • Self-monitoring checks

  • Reporting and recording

  • Notification of significant events

  • Staff meetings

  • Team rotas

  • Training and professional development


Health and Saftey

  • Fire drills, core point tests, electrical equipment, lighting, smoke alarms and gas testing

  • Homes daily log and diary events

  • Housekeeping checks

  • Maintenance logs

  • General upkeep of the home.

Equality & Diversity

  • Inclusion

  • Engagement in relevant religious or cultural services

  • Personalised support plans

  • Living spaces

Review of recommendations from your last Ofsted inspection.

Planning

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An inspector from E-Quality will organise a visits to your establishment with the responsible person to ensure that you are working inline with the children's homes regulations and quality standards 2015. After the planned visit, the inspector will make further monthly unannounced visits so that the inspector can observe the interaction between staff and young people.