Working at Meadows

No permanent manager in post, run by directors with recent unsettled period.

There was no registered manager at the time of our inspection. The registered manager had left in 2018 and the service was being run by two directors.

No structured activities programme or coordinator, just basic involvement like occasional baking or laundry help.

We saw a person helping staff with the laundry. We asked whether people helped in the kitchen and a member of staff told us two people sometimes baked cakes.

Financial abuse risks were not spotted early because checks and audits were not good enough at the time.

Concerns with the management and auditing of people's finance had resulted in a safeguarding investigation by the local authority and police in 2018. This investigation found that at the time of the concerns there were not adequate systems to safeguard people from financial abuse.