Elm Road

The provider had assessed the risks to people associated with their care and support. Staff members were knowledgeable about these risks and knew what to do to minimise the potential for harm to people.

People received safe support with their medicines by staff members who had been trained and assessed as competent. If errors were made the provider had systems in place to ensure the person was safe and lessons were learnt to minimise the risk of reoccurrence.

Staff members followed effective infection prevention and control procedures when supporting people.

The provider had systems in place to encourage and respond to feedback from people or those close to them. The provider, and management team, had good links with the local communities within which people lived.

The management team and provider had systems in place to identify improvements and drive good care.

The provider had kept the CQC informed about significant events at Elm Road.

We expect health and social care providers to guarantee autistic people and people with a learning disability the choices, dignity, independence and good access to local communities that most people take for granted. Right Support, right care, right culture is the statutory guidance which supports CQC to make assessments and judgements about services providing support to people with a learning disability and/or autistic people. Right support: • Model of care and setting maximises people's choice, control and independence Right care: • Care is person-centred and promotes people's dignity, privacy and human rights Right culture: • Ethos, values, attitudes and behaviours of leaders and care staff ensure people using services lead confident, inclusive and empowered lives.

This service was able to demonstrate how they were meeting the underpinning principles of Right support,

right care, right culture. People were supported in a small home based in a residential area with access to community facilities. People were supported to have maximum choice and control of their lives and staff supported them in the least restrictive way possible and in their best interests; the policies and systems in the service supported this practice.