A report by the Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW) from its inspection of Tanydre Children's Homes in Wrexham on March 31 has led to the organisation issuing a number of compliance notices, relating to improvements needed there in order to satisfy national minimum standards.

A report presented to the council's executive board by chief safeguarding and support officer Marie Lebacq explained that Tanydre is registered with CSSIW to provide residential placements for four young people between the ages of 10 and 16. Since the service was first commissioned, the nature and mix of the young people has changed, with the young people there currently displaying challenging behaviour.

The report says that at the time of this year's inspection, their behaviour had been extremely difficult for some time.

The inspectors recognised the situation was being managed, but raised issues over the appropriateness of the mix of youngsters in the home.

They also asked whether the home's internal layout was appropriate.

Part of the response required of the council was to relocate one of the young people to safeguard the welfare of the other three residents and leave a void placement for six months.

The home has been run by the council in partnership with the Together Trust, a charitable organisation, since 1997, but the council is the registered provider. It is staffed and run on behalf of the council by the trust.

Now the authority's executive board has agreed to the trust beoming the registered provider of the service.

Ms Lebacq's report explained that the Together Trust runs a number of partnership homes with local authorities but Tanydre was the only one where the local authority was the registered provider. Elsewhere the trust took sole responsibility for quality of care.

The trust has agreed to work with the council to identify more suitable options for delivering services to the vulnerable group of four. The results of the review will then be considered by the executive board.

The executive asked that a progress update on the council's plan to comply with the improvement notices go before the scrutiny committee in September.