Updated 3 May 2019
The inspection:
We carried out this inspection under Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (the Act) as part of our regulatory functions. This inspection was planned to check whether the provider was meeting the legal requirements and regulations associated with the Act, to look at the overall quality of the service, and to provide a rating for the service under the Care Act 2014.
Inspection team:
One inspector carried out this inspection.
Service and service type:
Acorn Park Adult Services is a residential care home that provides personal care for up to nine people living with severe learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorder and behaviour that challenges. The home has been developed and designed in line with the values that underpin the 'Registering the Right Support' and other best practice guidance. People in care homes receive accommodation and nursing or personal care. CQC regulates both the premises and the care provided, and both were looked at during this inspection. The service had a registered manager. The service is required to have a manager registered with the Care Quality Commission. This means that they and the provider are legally responsible for how the service is run and for the quality and safety of the care provided.
Notice of inspection:
This inspection was announced. We gave the service 24 hours’ notice of our inspection so that people living at Acorn Park Adult Services knew to expect our arrival and to reduce the impact of our presence. Inspection site visit activity took place on Tuesday 26 March 2019.
What we did:
• We reviewed information we had received about the service since the last inspection. This included details about incidents the provider must notify us about. We assessed the information we require providers to send us at least once annually to give some key information about the service. We used all this information to plan our inspection.
• We spoke with two people who used the service.
• We spoke with relatives of two people who use the service.
• We also spoke with six members of staff including the registered manager.
• We observed how people received their care in communal areas of the service.
• We looked at records in relation to people who used the service.
• We also looked at records relating to the management of the service, recruitment, policies and systems for monitoring quality.