Last updated 7 April 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 21 December 2016. A second day of inspection was carried out on 20 January 2017 to talk with relatives. The provider was given 48 hours’ notice because the location was a small care home for younger adults who are often out during the day; we needed to be sure that someone would be in. The inspection was carried out by one adult social care inspector.

Before the inspection we reviewed the information we held about the service. This included the notifications we had received from the provider. Notifications are changes, events or incidents the provider is legally required to let us know about.

We contacted the local authority commissioning officers. We contacted the local Healthwatch. Healthwatch is an independent consumer champion that gathers and represents the views of the public about health and social care services in England.

During the inspection we spent time with three people living at the service. We spoke with two relatives and contacted an independent advocate. We spoke with the registered manager and three care staff.

We reviewed two people’s care records and two people’s medicines records. We viewed three staff files for recruitment records, as well as supervision and training records for all staff members. We looked at other records relating to the management of the service. We looked around the building and spent time with people.