Lyndon House

Updated 17 April 2014

The Trust has a total of 21 active locations serving mental health and learning disability needs, including three hospital sites: Brooklands, St Michael’s Hospital and Caludon Centre. There are four locations providing respite services for children with learning disabilities. Lyndon 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 12 inspections covering five locations which are registered for mental health conditions. Lyndon 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. These services all provide planned respite care for children and young people away from their parents or other main carers.

Lyndon House in Solihull provides care for up to seven children with learning disabilities, behaviours that can challenge and additional physical health needs. 

Updated 17 April 2014

Lyndon House in Solihull is a respite service for up to seven children with learning disabilities, behaviours that can challenge and additional physical health needs.

We found that the service provided safe, caring and effective care to children. Staff were trained and experienced and showed high levels of motivation and commitment. There was a consistent staff team as many of the staff had worked at Lyndon House for many years. We saw staff supporting children in a very positive and reassuring way. All staff showed a good knowledge of the needs of individual children and how to meet them, which led to a responsive and well-managed service.

Parents of the children who used the home were very positive about the service they received.

Lyndon House’s needs-led approach to bed occupancy ensured they can manage the needs of the children there at any particular time. 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

The needs-led approach to bed occupancy ensured beds were not filled beyond the capacity of Lyndon House to manage the needs of the children there at any particular time. This enabled children’s needs to be met by enough staff and in a safe environment where their needs would not conflict with the needs of others.

Lyndon House had clear child-centred care plans in place for staff to follow. Staff gave us consistent answers about how they supported particular children with complex needs. We saw that staff were committed to the wellbeing of the children they supported, and this was confirmed by their parents. Staff were also responsive to the needs of children and parents.

Staff were trained and experienced and highly motivated and committed. Many had worked at Lyndon House for many years and knew the children they supported well. Parents were very positive in their views of the service.