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Children face 'serious risk of harm' at Gloucestershire care home, Ofsted report says

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A children’s home for young people with autism and learning difficulties has been rated "inadequate" in all areas of its provision after an Ofsted inspection uncovered a catalogue of leadership and safeguarding failures placing children at “significant risk of harm”.
The report by Ofsted recommended identified serious weaknesses at Orbis Abbey Rose. Picture: Phil Adams
The report by Ofsted recommended identified serious weaknesses at Orbis Abbey Rose. Picture: Phil Adams

Inspectors that visited Orbis Abbey Rose in Tewkesbury on 6 and 7 November recommended immediate action to suspend the home’s registration and for the 10 children in its care to move to alternative placements.

Orbis Abbey Rose confirmed that Ofsted has suspended its residential care provision but added that “the day school remains unaffected”.

The inspectorate said it carried out an inspection of the home - which is on the same site as a day school also owned by Orbis Education and Care group - after receiving “several specific concerns and allegations” about practices in the home.

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