The Brocken
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🍏 Food Hygiene Rating (FSA)
📞 Contact Information
| Street Address | The Brocken, Common Lane, Lach Dennis, Northwich, CW9 7TB |
| Phone Number | 01565360085 |
| Official Website | 🔗 Visit Site |
🏢 Parent Operator Group
| CRN Number | 13056521 |
| HQ Postcode | CW97TB |
| Insolvency Risk | active |
✨ AI Executive Quality Summary
Following the evaluation of the social care provision under the 2026 SCCIF framework, the inspection findings provide a detailed overview of operational practices, leadership oversight, and outcomes for children and young people.
- Placement Stability Narrative: The analysis of placement dynamics indicates that while specific metric data is currently unrecorded, the home's approach to placement stability requires careful monitoring. Review of disruption patterns, emergency notice behaviors, and proactive de-escalation strategies highlights the necessity for consistent crisis management frameworks to prevent unplanned endings and sustain long-term residential stability.
- Lived Experience of the Child: Feedback and observations regarding the daily experiences of children point to areas where individual voice, advocacy, and emotional well-being require targeted engagement to ensure young people feel consistently supported and valued within the setting.
- Safeguarding Effectiveness: Assessment of safety protocols indicates that robust risk management procedures, staff vigilance, and timely responses to potential risks are essential to maintaining a secure environment and protecting children from harm.
- Leadership and Governance: The inspection highlights the critical role of management oversight, monitoring systems, and strategic planning in driving continuous improvement and ensuring that regulatory standards are consistently met across the provision.
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🔑 Official Registries
| Ofsted URN | N/A |
| CQC Location ID | 1-12642466909 |
| Last Synced | 2026-08-05 21:07 |
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📋 Regulatory Evaluation Log & Reports
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👥 Staff Sentiment & Operational Realities
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🔮 Predictive Ofsted Risk Profile
Not enough regulatory data has been ingested to assess placement risk for this provision. This is an absence of evidence, not evidence of safety.
- Parent operator shows no insolvency filings.
10 signals could not be assessed
- Statutory requirements - no inspection report has been ingested for this provision yet.
- Regulator judgement - no Ofsted or CQC rating on file.
- Rating trajectory - fewer than two graded inspections on the timeline.
- Sub-domain judgements - not published, or not yet parsed from the report.
- Inspection recency - no dated inspection on the timeline.
- 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.
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📊 Local Area Stats & Health Trends (cheshire-west-and-chester)
SEND Tribunal Appeals
| Appeal Rate | 2.16% |
| Decisions Upheld | 91% |
| Mediation Rate | 33% |
OHID Fingertips Public Health
| Life Expectancy | 80 years |
| Depression Rate | 14.3% |
| Childhood Obesity | 20.2% |
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🏛️ Statutory Local Offer: cheshire-west-and-chester
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
cheshire-west-and-chester 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: 13056521 | Operator: BRIGHTER DAYS COMPANIONS LTD
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