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Building Blocks Child Care

🏠 Children's Care Home

✨ AI Executive Quality Summary

This intelligence summary provides an objective overview of the social care provision, drawing on historical inspection outcomes and performance indicators within the context of the evolving regulatory framework.

  • Historical Inspection Context: Previous regulatory oversight indicates a high standard of historical performance, most notably evidenced by an Ofsted 'Outstanding' rating awarded in May 2025, alongside prior inspections in 2019 and 2016.
  • Placement Stability Narrative: Specific metrics concerning placement disruptions, emergency notice behaviors, and proactive de-escalation actions are currently unrecorded within the evaluated dataset. Consequently, patterns regarding the long-term sustainability of placements and staff intervention efficacy cannot be definitively established at this time and require localized operational verification.
  • Lived Experience of the Child: Direct qualitative metrics reflecting the daily experiences, voice, and advocacy outcomes for children residing within the provision are currently unquantified in the available data profile.
  • Safeguarding Effectiveness: Detailed evaluative data regarding risk management, missing-from-care protocols, and multi-agency safeguarding implementation remains unspecified within the current reporting framework.
  • Leadership and Governance: Oversight mechanisms, quality assurance auditing, and management responsiveness are not detailed in the current sub-evaluation metrics, necessitating ongoing review to ensure alignment with contemporary regulatory standards.
Safeguarding
Unknown
Lived Experience
Unknown
Leadership
Unknown
Stability
Unknown

📈 Historical Rating Trends

Overall Effectiveness
Help & Protection (Safety)
Leaders & Managers (Well-Led)
Outstanding Good Requires Imp. Inadequate May 2025 Overall: Outstanding May 2025

🔑 Official Registries

Ofsted URN EY477240 🔗
CQC Location ID N/A
Last Synced Never

📋 Capacity & Registration

Registered Manager Sarah Jenkins
Responsible Individual David Smith
Registered Places 6
Therapeutic System Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Avg. Weekly Fee £3,500
Manager Tenure 24 months
Lead Inspector Jason Holmes

📋 Regulatory Evaluation Log & Reports

May 9, 2025
Ofsted Rated Outstanding
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July 19, 2019
Inspection
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March 31, 2016
Inspection
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👥 Staff Sentiment & Operational Realities

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🔮 Predictive Ofsted Risk Profile

B2B Placement Telemetry
0% Risk
Low Risk Stability Index

Stable operational baseline. All core indicators within healthy thresholds.

All risk factors are within normal parameters.

⚠️ Area Risk Analysis

Low Risk

ONS local area crime rates are below national average.

🌊 Flood Risk Intelligence

Zone 1

Environment Agency flood zone monitoring probability rating.

🗺️ Interactive Geospatial Risk & Asset Map

Visualize the facility location relative to nearby registered social care providers (within 5 miles), transport infrastructure links, and local environmental hazards.

Current Facility Nearby Providers Flood Risk Zone

🚇 Infrastructure Score

8
Transit Score
Fuzzy public bus & rail network density rating (1-10)

🌐 Wikipedia Insights

Points of the compass

Points of the compass

Directional divisions marked on a compass

The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each separated by 90 degrees, and secondarily divided by four ordinal (intercardinal) directions—northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest—each located halfway between two cardinal directions. Some disciplines such as meteorology and navigation further divide the compass with additional azimuths. Within European tradition, a fully defined compass has 32 "points".

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🍏 Food Hygiene Rating (FSA)

5
Rating: 5 / 5
Last Inspected: N/A

📞 Contact Information

Street Address 32 Cottam Avenue, Preston, PR2 3XE

🏢 Parent Operator Group

BUILDING BLOCKS CHILD CARE
CRN Number 04005432
HQ Postcode CO111RG
Insolvency Risk active

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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: north-west

Statutory Support

Leaving Care Grant (Setting-up Home Allowance)

£2,000

Statutory 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

north-west Council Leaving Care Services - Please contact the local council directly for team details.

📋 Transition & Rights Checklist (Post-18 Planning)

Turning 18 is a big step! The Children Act 1989 guarantees you specific support as a care leaver. Use this checklist to verify your transition planning is on track.

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🔍 Corporate Ownership & Financial Transparency Tracker

Companies House CRN: 04005432 | Operator: BUILDING BLOCKS CHILD CARE

Follow the Money

Corporate Structure Tree Visualizer

BUILDING BLOCKS CHILD CARE Mr Philip Thomas Ashton

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Debt-to-Asset Leverage Ratio

Debt Ratio: 75%
Reported Assets £4,200,000
Reported Liabilities £3,150,000

Risk & Insolvency Flags

No active financial compliance risks or flags found.