We expect health and social care providers to guarantee people with a learning disability and autistic people respect, equality, dignity, choices and independence and good access to local communities that most people take for granted. ‘Right support, right care, right culture’ is the guidance CQC follows to make assessments and judgements about services supporting people with a learning disability and autistic people and providers must have regard to it.About the service
1 Fengates Road is a residential care home providing accommodation and personal care for up to six people. At the time of inspection there were six people living there.
People’s experience of using this service and what we found
Right Support
People were encouraged to have control in their daily lives and staff ensured people were able to live as independently as possible. For example, people had been supported to learn new skills such as going out to places of interest without staff support and taking care of their home environment. Risks were managed well to keep people safe while promoting their independence and staff supported people to access healthcare services when they needed them.
Right Care
Staff knew people well and ensured that people received the support they needed to keep them safe and to meet their individual care needs. People's rights were promoted, and they were protected from discrimination. People were treated with dignity and their privacy was respected. Staff were kind and caring. They treated people with respect and encouraged them to make decisions about their care and support. One relative told us, “The staff seem to know [person] very well indeed and they are on the ball. They are all great and I don’t have a bad word to say.”
Right Culture
There was a positive ethos at the service and a culture of empowering people to live the lives they wanted to. People were involved in planning their own care and were encouraged to give their views about the support they received. The support staff provided was flexible to take into account people's needs and preferences.
For more details, please see the full report which is on the CQC website at www.cqc.org.uk
Rating at last inspection
This service was registered with us on 1 December 2020 and this is the first inspection. The last rating for the service under the previous provider was good (published on 24 January 2018).
Why we inspected
We undertook this inspection to assess that the service is applying the principles of ‘Right support right care right culture’.
Follow up
We will continue to monitor information we receive about the service until we return to visit as per our re-inspection programme. If we receive any concerning information we may inspect sooner.