Archived: Lifesuccess Academy CIC Also known as Brooke House

Updated 23 March 2017

Life Success Academy registered with the CQC on 25 June 2014. The location is Brooke House and they registered to provide accommodation for persons who require treatment for substance misuse.

Their statement of purpose states that they provide residential substance misuse treatment and / or rehabilitation services for adults between the ages of 18 and 65 years. Life Success Academy has a registered manager, who was also the director of Life Success Academy. Life Success Academy states that they aim to reach out to marginalised people in the community who have dependency and behavioural issues. They state they can offer a methadone and subutex detoxification to men and women aged between 18 and 65, with long term drug and alcohol dependencies. Their literature reports that this is offered in conjunction with a local pharmacy and is supervised by local GP’s.

The organisation is a Christian based charity, they offer life coaching and mentoring to those individuals who want to change. They state that they offer a 10 step programme and a ‘’stick man’’ programme to support people through detoxification.

Life Success Academy is able to accommodate up to 12 clients. There are 10 bedrooms. Bedrooms were not ensuite. Clients shared three showers, one bath and three toilets. Life Success Academy is located in inner city Birmingham, close to public transport, shopping and leisure facilities.

Before Life Success Academy registered with the CQC Life Success Academy was a supported hostel.

Life Success Academy has not been previously inspected.

Updated 23 March 2017

We do not currently rate independent standalone substance misuse services.

We found the following issues that the service provider needs to improve:

• Staff did not have the right skills and experience for their roles and the registered manager did not supervise and appraise staffs work performance consistently.

• The service did not deal with incidents of harm or risk of harm appropriately.

• The clients did not have care plans, risk assessments or risk management plans in place.

• The service did not have a fire safety assessment.

• The service did not have contingency plans in place for safe staffing at all times.

• The service was unaware of any harm reduction strategies or safe advice around alcohol and drug use.

• The service was unaware of how to deal with an overdose.

• The service was unaware of how to support clients through an opiate or alcohol detox.

• The service was unaware of therapeutic interventions for drug and alcohol users.

• The service did not respond to clients complaints.

• The service did not have robust policies and procedures in place to safeguard staff and service users.

• The service was unaware of the importance of safeguarding children and adults from risk of harm.

• The service was unaware of clients’ rights to come and go freely from the service.