Children’s Home Consultants
Helping to Achieve Outstanding Care
Our Services:
- Reg 44 Visitors
- Opening Children’s Residential Homes
- Mock Ofsted Inspections
- Ofsted Application Refusal and Compliance Notices
- Clinical Safeguarding Supervision
- Bespoke Training Packages
- Responsible Individuals & Registered Managers
As children’s home consultants, we are passionate and committed to improving the lives of young people in care. Take a look at our informative video that explains a little bit more about us by clicking here.
Why Work With Our Children’s Home Consultants?
At Changing Outcomes we believe that all looked after children deserve outstanding care, and we understand that keeping up to date with regulatory changes plays a huge role in keeping young people safe. As such, we help to ensure that our children’s home consultants keep appraised of developments within the children’s home sector and communicate them with our providers.
Our Reg 44 Visitor service has grown exponentially year after year and we feel that only hiring Reg 44 visitors who have managerial experience within a children’s home and a proven track record with Ofsted has been a key factor. Having been managers in the past, our Reg 44 visitors are uniquely placed to understand exactly what a successful and nurturing children’s home looks like.
Work With Us
Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people? Find out more about how you can work with us to make an impactful change to new and existing children’s homes.
Our Services
Find out more about the specialist children’s homes consultancy services we offer, so we can support you achieve outstanding outcomes for your young people.
Resources
Click here to gain access to some of our free resources that may come in handy in your quest to run a successful children’s home.
Supporting You in Opening a Children’s Residential Home
As children’s home consultants who care about making a difference to all looked after children, helping clients open up new children’s homes in the right way, is very important to us. We have a small number of consultants who have specialised in this area for a number of years, which enables us to provide a clear and robust roadmap on how to get registered with Ofsted.
Our service includes an initial viability assessment, so you can make a fully informed decision as to whether or not opening up a children’s home is for you. We take the time to explain each and every facet of what Ofsted requires for successful registration, including comprehensive information about setting up a limited company, formulating a business plan, finding a suitable property and being granted planning permission, your statement of purpose, children’s guide, location risk assessment, and all key policies including your equalities policy, missing child policy, behaviour management policy (including the use of restraint), prevention of bullying policy, complaints policy, and safeguarding policy. You will also further your understanding about the importance of appointing experienced leaders, such as your Registered Manager and Responsible Individual, SC1 and SC2 forms, DBS’s, insurance, fit persons questionnaires, health declaration forms, and Ofsted registration fees. To find out more about how we can support you in opening a children’s residential home, click here.
Testimonials
Take a read through some of the testimonials we have received from various children’s home managers, responsible individuals and directors.
Amanda Goodenough – Business and Service Development Director
“From the outset, Andy took time to understand the organisation and build the relationship as a critical friend through regular dialogue. His support and service has been instrumental in helping Beaufort improve the quality of our service for young people through the regulation 44 independent visitors.
As we have grown, Changing Outcomes had grown with us. Providing an increased number of quality independent visitors. In addition to this, Andy and his team have also supported us in developing our supported housing provision by providing professional independent visitor reviews.”
Tony Waite – Registered Manager
“We have been working with Changing Outcomes for 4 years now. The Reg 44 visitors are always knowledgeable and familiar with the standards. We have found the visits to be thought provoking and a useful tool for personal and service development. The Reg 44 reports are well written and cover all of the standards thoroughly, with easy to evidence month to month progress on recommendations.”
Jackie Smeeth – Responsible Individual
“Changing Outcomes have always acted in a professional manner and have been dedicated to helping us set up and develop our service. They have provided helpful feedback and suggestions and have always been willing to offer constructive advice.
It is refreshing to have such a positive and constructive relationship with our reg 44 visitor, who offers an invaluable third-party view of the care that we provide.”
Kimberley Bennett – Registered Manager
“Having supervision with Changing Outcomes has been so beneficial to me as a newly qualified Children’s Home Manager. Our sessions are a safe and confidential space, where I am able to enhance my professional skills, attitudes, and knowledge in order to achieve competency in providing quality care. My supervisor also gives great advice and shares resources that I can implement into my service. I am really grateful to have been matched with her!”
Angela Macdonald – Responsible Individual
“I use Changing Outcomes for my Reg 44 monitoring. I find they provide a professional service and
use personnel that are experienced in Residential care and in particular the OFSTED inspection
criteria. Every month I am given advice and suggestions to make my service better. The monitoring
format is clear and covers all the regulations relating to the Quality Standards. Each month Andrew Roberts picks a theme, and this is explored and discussed during the monitoring visit. Overall, I am very impressed with Changing Outcomes.”
Andrea Dowd – General Manager / Responsible
Individual
“Residential Group received a really professional service from Changing Outcomes. The team have been accommodating and very knowledgeable. Nothing has been too much trouble in their support of our Children’s home enquiries and we have had great support both face to face and online. Changing Outcomes has been able to educate us toward the benefit of our young people and the service we are looking to provide. Aftercare has been exemplary and we feel like we have a very knowledgeable ally moving forward with our business plan for the future. We hope that our business relationship with Changing Outcomes is one of longevity and confident that with their support, our business will go from strength to strength.”
Parvana Huseinova – Registered Manager
“We spent a lot of time researching consultants in helping us set up our home. After many conversations with Andrew, we decided to go with Changing Outcomes. Even before any payment was made, Andrew was really helpful on the phone answering my questions. Andrew supported us in creating a business plan and financial forecast. He did extensive research in the area we wanted to open a home. He even had a meeting with children’s services in the area we wanted to open a home. Andrew sat with us and explained our business plan and financial forecast at great length. He is always a phone call away for advice and is very honest. With his guidance and support, we have been able to get funding to open our home.”
Dennis Visser- Responsible Individual
“Changing Outcomes has ensured that interviews occur within the required timescales and an in depth report is
completed highlighting what happened and suggesting possible methods of reducing / eliminating missing episodes.”
The report is centred around the voice of the child and in instances where the child is not willing to engage the
interviewer will try different methods before liaising with the adults working at the home to gain detailed information.”
Get in Touch
If you want to work with children’s home consultants who go the extra mile to ensure a high standard of care, get in touch with us today.
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