The Birches Nursing Home
At a glance
🍏 Food Hygiene Rating (FSA)
📞 Contact Information
| Street Address | 239 Water Lane, Totton, Southampton, Hampshire, SO40 3GE |
| Phone Number | 02380667141 |
🏢 Parent Operator Group
| CRN Number | 05164707 |
| HQ Postcode | LS197ZA |
| Insolvency Risk | active |
✨ AI Executive Quality Summary
As a UK Social Care intelligence analyst evaluating this provision under the 2026 Ofsted Single Children’s Homes Inspection Framework (SCCIF), the available historical data primarily consists of legacy Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection reports spanning from 2012 to 2020. Contemporary, granular qualitative metrics regarding current leadership governance, lived experiences of the children, and safeguarding effectiveness are currently unrecorded within the provided dataset.
Placement Stability Narrative:
- Placement Disruptions & Patterns: The provided records lack specific longitudinal data concerning placement breakdowns, unplanned moves, or patterns of short-term residency. Consequently, historical trends regarding stability metrics cannot be quantitatively verified from the CQC publication log alone.
- Emergency Notice Behaviors: There is an absence of documented incidents detailing emergency notice terminations, unauthorized absences (missing from care episodes), or crisis-driven placement breakdowns within the available text summary.
- Proactive De-escalation Actions: The dataset does not provide operational evidence regarding internal de-escalation strategies, behavioral support frameworks, or multi-agency interventions aimed at sustaining placements during acute periods of crisis.
Note: In accordance with the 2026 SCCIF framework updates, no single-word overall outcome is assigned. Further up-to-date qualitative evaluation is required to accurately assess current safeguarding and leadership standards.
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🔑 Official Registries
| Ofsted URN | N/A |
| CQC Location ID | 1-112100385 |
| Last Synced | Never |
📋 Capacity & Registration
| Registered Manager | null |
| Responsible Individual | null |
| Therapeutic System | null |
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📋 Regulatory Evaluation Log & Reports
👥 Staff Sentiment & Operational Realities
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🔮 Predictive Ofsted Risk Profile
Below the watchlist threshold, but the indicators below were found across the 4 of 11 signals we were able to assess.
- No inspection recorded for 78 months - the published judgement may no longer reflect current practice.
- No open statutory requirements on the most recent inspection report.
- Rated Good at the most recent inspection.
- Parent operator shows no insolvency filings.
7 signals could not be assessed
- Rating trajectory - fewer than two graded inspections on the timeline.
- Sub-domain judgements - not published, or not yet parsed from the report.
- Manager tenure - not recorded.
- Manager turnover - changes have only been tracked since July 30, 2026; no earlier history exists.
- Registration status - not recorded.
- Staff sentiment - fewer than 3 verified reviews in the last six months.
- Area deprivation - this postcode has not been geocoded yet.
Derived from published Ofsted and CQC judgements, statutory requirements listed on inspection reports, and verified staff reviews. This is a directory-generated indicator, not a regulator judgement. Recalculated 1 second ago.
⚠️ Area Risk Analysis
Neighbourhood contextArea crime data has not been retrieved for this postcode yet.
Sources: police.uk street-level crime API and MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation. Crime is recorded at the neighbourhood level and does not describe the provision itself.
🌊 Flood Risk Intelligence
Environment Agency flood zone monitoring probability rating.
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📊 Local Area Stats & Health Trends (new-forest)
SEND Tribunal Appeals
| Appeal Rate | 3.04% |
| Decisions Upheld | 92% |
| Mediation Rate | 37% |
OHID Fingertips Public Health
| Life Expectancy | 80.4 years |
| Depression Rate | 13.7% |
| Childhood Obesity | 20.6% |
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Care Leaver Transition & Statutory Support Portal
Connecting care leavers directly to post-18 statutory support, setting-up home grants, local council offers, and independent living preparation tools.
🏛️ Statutory Local Offer: new-forest
Statutory SupportLeaving Care Grant (Setting-up Home Allowance)
£2,000Statutory grant to buy furniture and essentials for your first home.
Council Tax Exemption
Statutory Council Tax exemption applies up to age 21 (varies to 25 depending on local council guidelines).
Higher Education Bursary
Statutory £2,000 Higher Education bursary plus vacation housing support assistance.
PA / Leaving Care Support Team
new-forest Council Leaving Care Services - Please contact the local council directly for team details.
📋 Transition & Rights Checklist (Post-18 Planning)
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🔍 Corporate Ownership & Financial Transparency Tracker
Companies House CRN: 05164707 | Operator: HARCARE LIMITED
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