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BME Outreach

Outreach to disadvantaged black and minority ethnic families

A key challenge for services that seek to get support to families when they most need them is to find ways to overcome the fear and anxiety that many parents have about asking for help. Coram has worked effectively in inner city communities for many years, and aims to share what it has learnt about effective outreach to diverse populations.

Coram Ealing Children Centre Outreach Service

In 2009 Ealing Council commissioned Coram to set up and deliver an outreach service to provide support, information and access to services for those families who cannot, or choose not, to come into Children’s Centres, thereby reducing the risk of social exclusion and improving child outcomes through effective support for their parents.

The service was designed to provide outreach support and raise awareness about Children’s Centre services through group work and home-visiting in partnership with health and children’s services, the Jobcentre, and community groups. It has been taken in house by the London Borough of Ealing (March 2013) with its volunteering service still commissioned by Coram.

The service has been validated by C4EO, the Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services, as an example of promising practice.

Exploring safeguarding needs of black and minority ethnic children in Tower Hamlets

In 2010 Tower Hamlets Local Safeguarding Children Board commissioned Coram to study strategies to meet the safeguarding needs of black and minority ethnic children in Tower Hamlets. Key findings included the need for ordinary services to be culturally competent and explain to their role more clearly, alongside the need for specialist advice to service providers.

Hackney community cohesion study

Hackney Council undertook a review of what contributes to community cohesion in 2009. In case studies of Kingsmead and Berger Primary schools Coram found that children, parents and teachers provided clear evidence of the positive role that schools can play to counteract the impact of deprivation and inequality in some of Hackney’s poorest communities, and build community cohesion amongst children and parents.

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Outreach to disadvantaged black and minority ethnic families

Coram works to enhance outreach to diverse populations

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Coram works to enhance outreach to diverse populations

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