• Residential substance misuse service

Archived: FOCUS12 - 24 Crown Street

24 Crown Street, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 1QU

Provided and run by:
FOCUS 12

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Background to this inspection

Updated 5 June 2017

The provider of this service is Focus 12 - an independent charity, which was established in 1997. It is based in Bury St Edmunds.

24 Crown Street is a residential accommodation for clients receiving detoxification from both drugs and / or alcohol under staff supervision. This was provided at the Charity’s treatment centre located at 87-92 Risbygate Bury St Edmunds.

24 Crown Street had five spaces and was rented by the Charity from a private landlord and the accommodation is then sub-let to clients conditional upon them receiving treatment at the Charity’s treatment centre.

There were three clients receiving accommodation at 24 Crown Street on the day of our inspection. There were a total of nine clients receiving treatment from the main treatment centre.

Primary treatment was offered over a 12 week period. Ongoing abstinence based treatment, which included group therapy and individual counselling was provided.

Clients using this service were either privately funded or had their funding approved by statutory organisations.

The provider was registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide the following regulated activities.

Treatment of disease, disorder or injury

Accommodations for persons who require treatment for substance misuse.

87 - 92 Risbygate Gate was last inspected on 4 January 2017 and this report is available on our website.

Overall inspection

Updated 5 June 2017

We do not currently rate independent standalone substance misuse services.

We found the following areas of good practice:

  • Clients received an induction to the house upon admission. This allowed them to familiarise themselves to the layout of the house and the fire exits and procedures.

  • Night intervention service staff provided support to this location up to 23:00 hours. Contact numbers were available for clients to contact these staff members if required during the night.

  • Accommodation contracts were in place and these identified the expected standards of behaviour when sharing this accommodation with others.

  • Weekly accommodation meetings were held at which any concerns identified by clients were addressed.