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Registered Office

Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings

Oak House, Reeds Crescent, Watford, WD24 4PH (01923) 944285

Provided and run by:
Allerton C&S GL Limited

Important: This service was previously registered at a different address - see old profile

All Inspections

13 July 2023

During a routine inspection

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 autistic people. We considered this guidance as there were people using the service who have a learning disability and or who are autistic.

About the service

Registered office is supported living service providing personal care to 2 people at the time of the inspection.

Not everyone who used the service received personal care. CQC only inspects where people receive personal care. This is help with tasks related to personal hygiene and eating. Where they do, we also consider any wider social care provided.

People’s experience of using this service and what we found

Right Support

Care plans focused on people's strengths and building people's goals and long-term aspirations.

Staff supported people with their medicines in a way that promoted their independence and achieved the best possible health outcome.

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.

Staff supported people to play an active role in maintaining their own health and wellbeing and enabled people to access specialist health and social care support in the community.

Right Care

The provider ensured staff met the government guidance when adhering to safe infection prevention control practices.

The provider made sure that there was enough skilled staff to meet people's needs and keep them safe, as well as ensuring their met best practice guidance.

Staff had training specifically for understanding the needs of people with a learning disability and autism and this was something that the provider planned to continue developing.

Staff understood how to protect people from poor care and abuse. The service worked well with agencies to do so.

Staff had training on how to recognise and report abuse and they knew how to apply it.

Right Culture

Professionals spoke highly about the responsiveness of staff, and the responsiveness of the management team.

Staff felt supported and the management team were always available. The registered manager had a good understanding of their responsibilities towards people they supported and had passion in delivering person centred care.

The provider had quality assurance systems in place, which ensured they were capturing the good practices as well as where improvements were needed.

For more details, please see the full report which is on the CQC website at www.cqc.org.uk

Rating at last inspection and update

The last rating for this service was requires improvement (Published 15 April 2021)

Why we inspected

This inspection was prompted by a review of the information we held about this service.

Follow up

We will continue to monitor information we receive about the service, which will help inform when we next inspect.