Bradbury House

Updated 17 April 2014

The Trust has a total of 21 active locations. There are three main hospital sites: Brooklands, St Michael’s Hospital and Caludon Centre. There are four locations providing respite services for children with learning disabilities. Bradbury House is one of these.

The Trust provides a wide range of mental health and learning disability services for children, young adults, adults and older adults as well as providing a range of community services for people in Coventry.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust has been inspected 21 times since registration.  Out of these, there have been 10 inspections covering five locations which are registered for mental health conditions. Bradbury House is a location which has not previously been inspected.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust provides overnight short breaks to children with a learning disability and additional health needs (complex physical health needs and/or mental health/behavioural needs). It provides this service in four separate locations, of which Bradbury House is one. These services all provide planned respite care for children and young people away from their parents or other main carers.

Bradbury House in Coventry provides care for up to seven children with learning disabilities and behaviours that may challenge. It is purpose-built and located in a residential area of Coventry.

Updated 17 April 2014

Bradbury House in Coventry provides care for up to seven children with learning disabilities and behaviours that may challenge. It is purpose-built and located in a residential area of Coventry.

We found that the service provided safe, caring and effective care to children. Staff were trained, experienced and showed high levels of motivation and commitment. There was a consistent staff team as many of the staff had worked at Bradbury House for a number of years. All staff showed a good knowledge of the needs of each child and how to meet them. This led to a responsive and well managed service.

Decisions about bed occupancy were led by children’s needs. This enabled children’s care to be met by sufficient numbers of staff, in a safe environment where their needs would not conflict with those of others.

Updated 17 April 2014

Decisions about bed occupancy were led by children’s needs. This enabled children’s needs to be met by sufficient numbers of staff, in a safe environment where their needs would not conflict with those of others.

Staff were trained and experienced and showed high levels of motivation and commitment. Many we spoke with had worked at Bradbury House for a number of years and all showed a good knowledge of the needs of individual children and how to meet them.

We spoke by phone with a parent who expressed great satisfaction with the service.

We did not see evidence of measures in place to share good practice with similar services within the Trust.

We felt the service was safe, caring, responsive and effective.