Archived: College Road Care Home

Updated 21 June 2016

We carried out this inspection under Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 as part of our regulatory functions. This inspection was planned to check whether the provider is meeting the legal requirements and regulations associated with the Health and Social Care Act 2008, to look at the overall quality of the service, and to provide a rating for the service under the Care Act 2014.

This inspection took place on 15 April 2016 and was unannounced. The inspection team consisted of two inspectors.

As part of our planning we looked at the information we held about the service including information from any notifications the provider had sent us and audits. A notification is information about important events that the provider is required to send us by law. We also asked the local authority monitoring team for their views of the service.

During the inspection we looked at support plans and risk assessments of two people, staff files, people's medicines charts and other paperwork that the service held. We also spoke with a local authority monitoring team and a relative of one person.

Updated 21 June 2016

This inspection took place on 15 April 2016 and was unannounced. At the last inspection on 1 October 2015 we had found that while some improvements had been made from the inspection of March 2015, the service was still in breach of regulation in relation to the way it monitored the quality of care. We wrote a letter to the provider requiring documentation necessary for the purposes of monitoring how the service was addressing the shortfalls. The provider complied with this request. At this inspection we found some improvements had been made. There were systems to monitor the quality of the service. A range of audits had been completed. Risks to people had been identified and action taken to reduce the risks.

College Road Care Home is a care home that provides care, support and accommodation for up to three people with learning disabilities. At the time of our inspection there were two people living in the home.

There was a registered manager in place. A registered manager is a person who has registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to manage the service and has the legal responsibility for meeting the requirements of the law; as does the provider.

We found considerable improvements had been made in relation to the monitoring of the quality of care. There were appropriate records of people’s finances including their spending. Staff carried out daily and weekly checks of people’s finances to reduce the risk of financial abuse. Risks to people were identified and monitored. Audits had been carried out to identify any improvements that were needed.

There were sufficient staff to meet the needs of people and the service had conducted appropriate recruitment checks before staff started work.

People had been involved in the planning of their care. We also saw that their relatives were involved as appropriate. Support plans and risk assessments provided information and guidance for staff on how to support people.