Updated
Wednesday, 2nd June 2021, 3:50 pm
Inspection watchdog OFSTED has announced it is taking further compliance action against a children s home in rural Lancashire.
The home, part of the former Mountwood Academy site, on Ward Green Lane, Ribchester, serves young people with special needs.
Some of the young residents were removed from the home on OFSTED s orders in 2019.
The Mountwood site in Ribchester (photo: 2019)
When the home was last inspected for a monitoring visit on April 26 there were three young people in residence.
OFSTED was already taking compliance action against the privately run home, which it lists as run by ROC Northwest Limited, on issues relating to to leadership and management.
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