Author

Nicholas Shilleto

Founder & Residential Childcare Lead

Founder of ARC. More than eight years in residential childcare, from support worker to Registered Manager and operational leadership of children's homes.

Nic brings more than eight years of residential childcare experience to ARC, progressing from frontline support work through Registered Management and into operational leadership.

He has led children's homes, supported Registered Managers and senior teams, and worked extensively on safeguarding, compliance, care planning, risk management and quality improvement.

Nic has twice led significant service improvement, including taking homes from Requires Improvement to Good and from Inadequate to Good, as well as opening a new crisis home from the ground up.

At ARC, Nic makes sure what we build reflects the reality of residential childcare, from the paperwork and regulation to what actually happens during a shift.

Articles by Nicholas Shilleto

Opening a children's home

How much does it cost to open a children's home?

What it costs to open a children's home in England: one-off costs, staffing, the cash needed before your first child, br...

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Incident reporting and safeguarding follow-up

Incident follow-up in children's homes: what happens next

What a manager does after an incident is recorded: review, Regulation 40 decision, restraint deadlines, debriefs, plan u...

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Risk patterns and behavior trends

Spotting patterns in children's home records

A practical method for reviewing children's home records for patterns and escalation: what to look for, five questions t...

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Registered managers and home leadership

Management oversight in children's homes: what to evidence

What Ofsted means by management oversight: Regulation 13, the monthly Reg 44 visit, the six-monthly Reg 45 review, and h...

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Handovers and shift communication

Children's home handovers: what to include and a template

What a good children's home handover contains, how to structure it, why handovers fail, and a worked example and templat...

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Safeguarding leads and designated safeguarding leads

Safeguarding chronologies in children's homes

What a safeguarding chronology is, what goes in it, a column format with an example table, who maintains it, and how it...

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Regulations 36, 40, 44 and 45

Regulation 40 notifications in children's homes

Which events a children's home must notify under Regulation 40, who to tell for each, what 'without delay' means, how to...

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Frontline staff and support workers

Recording in children's homes: a practical guide

How to write good daily records in a children's home: Regulation 36, fact versus opinion, weak and good entries compared...

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