The Care Quality Commission has found the quality of care provided by Reach Out Care Support Network Limited, Newton Aycliffe, in County Durham to be Outstanding following an inspection carried out in July 2014.
Reach Out Care Support Network Limited provides personal care to children and young people with complex needs in their own homes, and has been judged as Outstanding under CQC’s new approach to inspection and regulation of the sector.
CQC inspectors found that staff working at the service were caring and compassionate and that children and young people were being provided with responsive, effective and well led care.
A full report of the inspection has been published on the CQC website at: www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-266663163.
Inspectors noted how children, young people and their families were fully involved in the planning of their care.
Every child and young person receiving care had a personalised care plan and risk assessment in place and staff fully understood their needs.
Activity days had been introduced to enable children and young people to meet their personal goals, and parents were overwhelmingly positive about the quality of care being provided.
Inspectors found that the organisation was very much child and family-centred, inclusive, and was underpinned by a genuine desire to offer as high a quality service as possible.
The provider had supported members of the management team to obtain additional qualifications to support their learning and development. An external consultant had also been brought into the service to work with the management team, and identify their strengths and weaknesses so that the leadership of the service could continually improve.
Debbie Westhead, Deputy Chief Inspector for Adult Social Care in the North, said:
“We found that Reach Out Care Support Network Limited was providing an outstanding service to the children and young people it supported and to their families, and the team there should be extremely proud of the work they do.
“We know how rewarding it is to work in such a service, and we were struck by the extent to which the service places the young people it cares for at the heart of everything it does.
“The support provided was designed not just to meet the child’s needs, but also to support families as a whole which is why the service has received the highest rating we can give.”
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Read reports from our checks on the standards at Reach Out Support Network Limited.