20 September 2021
During a routine inspection
Westgate is a residential care home providing personal care for up to seven people with a learning disability or autistic spectrum disorder. At the time of inspection six people were living in the home with the seventh room used as an office.
We expect health and social care providers to guarantee autistic people and people with a learning disability the choices, dignity, independence and good access to local communities that most people take for granted. Right Support, right care, right culture is the statutory guidance which supports CQC to make assessments and judgements about services providing support to people with a learning disability and/or autistic people.
People’s experience of using this service and what we found
People felt safe and staff had good knowledge of safeguarding processes. Staff had been recruited safely. There was a system in place to monitor staff contact with people in the form of daily logs. Care plans and risk assessments identified people’s support needs and staff had a good understanding of the support people needed.
People were supported to have maximum choice and control of their lives and staff supported them in the least restrictive way possible and in their best interests; the policies and systems in the service supported this practice.
People were treated with kindness and compassion. People felt well supported. People were listened to and could express their views. People’s privacy and dignity was maintained.
People’s and their relatives were involved in the review process. People’s personal preferences were identified in their care plans. People were involved in decisions about their care.
People received person centred care. People, relatives and staff expressed confidence in the registered manager. People, relatives and staff were given the opportunity to provide feedback. Audits took place to ensure the quality of the service was maintained.
For more details, please see the full report which is on the CQC website at www.cqc.org.uk
Rating at last inspection
This service was registered with us on 18 December 2013. It was last Inspected on 09 August 2018 with an overall rating of ‘Good’.
Why we inspected
This was a planned inspection.
Follow up
We will continue to monitor information we receive about the service until we return to visit as per our re-inspection programme. If we receive any concerning information we may inspect sooner.