Practical writing on training, compliance and inspection for children's residential care. Written by people who have run homes, not by a content team working from a keyword list.
What the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015 actually require of staff training, which qualifications carry a deadline, why there is no single statutory list of mandatory courses, and what inspectors ask to see.
The SC1 and SC2 forms, the Statement of Purpose, the Registered Manager and Responsible Individual, the fees, and what inspectors check before you can open. Top tips, with the source documents to confirm each one against.
Read the guide Workforce planningParagraph 10.8 of the statutory Guide asks for a workforce plan and sets out what it should detail. Here is a structure you can adapt, and what the sources actually say behind it.
Read the guide InductionWhat to cover across the first twelve weeks, with every item marked as regulation, guidance or simply our own view, so you can tell a duty from a suggestion.
Read the guide Therapeutic careWhat Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy can look like in residential care, where the approach ends and professional boundaries begin.
Read the guideA blank matrix set up for a children's home: staff down the side, courses across the top, renewal dates that calculate themselves.
Over 30 CareCPD-accredited courses written for children's residential care, grouped by the areas homes are inspected on.
The same picture maintained for you: status derived from completions, expiry calculated, certificates attached, across every Home.
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Over 30 CareCPD-accredited courses for children's residential care, with the tools to assign, track and evidence them across every Home.
