Four rather than nine standards
On the standards themselves, the leadership and management standard is similar to the equivalent in the children’s homes regulations, requiring the provider to ensure that there are sufficient numbers of staff, with the right skills and experience. However, while the children’s home standards require the provider to ensure continuity of care, this is not in the proposed standards for supported accommodation. Unlike the children’s homes ones, these would require the provider to ensure that young people were aware of their entitlements and, where possible, encouraged to access them.
The protection standard mirrors the children’s home equivalent in a number of ways, including by requiring staff to have the skills needed to identify and act upon risk or harm. However, it differs in other respects, for example, having no equivalent to the requirement that “the home’s day-to-day care is arranged and delivered so as to keep each child safe and