Last updated 27 May 2017
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 13 April 2017 and was unannounced. The inspection team comprised of one inspector.

Before the inspection we spoke with the local authority regarding information they held about the home. We also looked at information we held about the provider to see if we had received any concerns or compliments about the home. We reviewed the statutory notifications we had received from the provider. A statutory notification is information about important events which the provider is required to send us by law, such as allegations of abuse or serious incidents. We used this information to help us plan our inspection of the home.

The people who used the service were unable to tell us about their experience of living in the home. We spoke with one person's advocate and observed staff interacting with people and the care provided. We spoke with two support workers and the registered manager. We looked at two care plans and risk assessments, medication administration records and records relating to quality audits.