Updated 8 May 2024
Tanners is a residential care home that provides personal care for up to 7 older autistic people or older people with learning disabilities and physical disabilities. At the time of the inspection six people lived at the home. This was the first assessment of this service carried out under our single assessment framework. Assessment activity took place between 8 May and 27 June. We visited the service on 8 May 2024. This was an unannounced assessment. We looked at 9 quality statements: learning culture, safeguarding, involving people to manage risk, safe effective staffing, medicines optimisation, assessing needs, consent to care and treatment, independence choice and control and governance, management and sustainability. We assessed whether the service met the Right Support, Right Care, Right Culture Guidance. We found people were supported to have maximum choice and control of their lives and staff supported them in the least restrictive way possible. People’s risk assessments and care plans provided staff with the information to care for people in a safe way. During the inspection visits, we spoke with 2 people who lived at the service and 1 visiting relative and 2 healthcare professionals. We spoke with staff on duty who included the registered manager. We carried out observations of care and support. Our observations included the Short Observational Framework for Inspection (SOFI). SOFI is a way of observing care to help us understand the experience of people who could not talk with us. We looked at a range of records and how medicines were managed.