Achnamara

1. Previously unmet requirement. By 1 May 2026, the provider must implement effective oversight and quality assurance systems to ensure that young people are kept safe and practice is focused on improving outcomes. To do this, the provider, must at a minimum: a) Regularly audit young people's risk assessments, personal plans, and outcomes. b) Carry out improvement activities when there is practice identified that does not keep young people safe, or is not focused on improving outcomes. This is to comply with Regulation 4(1)(a) (Welfare of Users) of the Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (Requirements for Care Services) Regulations 2011 (SSI 2011/210). This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state that: 'I benefit from a culture of continuous improvement, with the organisation having robust and transparent quality assurance processe2. By 1 April 2026 the provider must ensure that all essential repairs to young people's rooms and communal areas are completed. To ensure that young people are safe and feel valued. This is to comply with Regulation 10 (2) parts (B),(D) of Scotland (Requirements for Care Services) Regulations 2011 (SSI 2011/210). Premises are not fit to be used for the provision of a care service unless they:- (b) are of sound construction and kept in a good state of repair externally and internally; (d) are decorated and maintained to a standard appropriate for the care service. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state that 'I experience an environment that is well looked after with clean, tidy and well maintained premises, furnishings and equipment.' (HSCS 5.22)

3. By 1 April 2026 the service must ensure that all young people admitted to the house have had appropriate assessment completed. To do this the provider must as a minimum: - consider how the introduction of the new placement might impact upon the safety and wellbeing of young people already living in the service. - plan for and assess the needs of children and young people before a placement begins, to consider how the needs of individual children and young people will be met. - service providers should have a clear and realistic view of their current capacity to provide care. - they should be fully conversant with the needs of the group of young people currently placed in the service, and should take full account of any current staffing or management issues. The service provider should develop a format for recording the matching process and the reasons for decisions which are made. This should include an impact assessment which c