Highbury House

The following is CQC's published account of its assessment, published 26 July 2024. References to “we” mean CQC. It describes findings at that time.

Date of assessment 23 April to 30 May 2024. Highbury house is a care home providing personal care for up to 11 autistic people and people with a learning disability and physical disabilities. We expect health and social care providers to guarantee people with a learning disability and autistic people respect, equality, dignity, choices and independence and good access to local communities that most people take for granted. ‘Right support, right care, right culture’ is the guidance CQC follows to make assessments and judgements about services supporting people with a learning disability and autistic people and providers must have regard to it. This assessment was carried out in response to the provider’s previous inspection [21 October 2023], where the provider was rated as ‘inadequate’ and placed into special measures and there were breaches of regulation. The purpose of special measures is to ensure that services providing inadequate care make significant improvements. Special measures provide a framework within which we user our enforcement powers in response to inadequate care and provide a timeframe within which providers must improve the quality of the care they provide. We carried out this assessment to check whether the provider had made improvements and was no longer in breach of regulation. The provider had made enough improvement and was no longer in special measures. However, further improvements were identified to the overall governance of the care and support provided to people. This was a breach of regulation. Full information about CQC’s regulatory response to this is added to reports after any representations and appeals have been concluded. Please see the Effective and Well Led sections of this full report. The overall rating for the service has changed from inadequate to requires improvement based on the findings of this inspection.