A mental health home that cares for children and adolescents has been told to improve for a second consecutive time following a focused inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
An overall rating of ‘requires improvement’ was handed to The Lighthouse in Darwen in January, although inspectors found the ‘safe’ area to be ‘inadequate’ as there were large gaps in the services provision which mean the home was unsafe for children.
As a result, the CQC served The Lighthouse with a warning notice and told staff they would need to make improvements by March 4.
The report, published on January 26 stated: “At the last inspection, we rated safe as inadequate due to concerns about staff not being trained in restraint, not having enough staff to safely restrain children, there was no nurse call alarm system, disclosure and barring service checks were not completed prior to employment, positive behaviour support plans were not based on functional assessments and contained negative punishment strategies, and not all incidents involving the police were reported to the Care…
