some key publications
history of coram, england’s first children’s charity
Gillian Pugh, 2007. London’s forgotten children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital. Stroud, Tempus Publishing.
Available from Amazon.
learning from Coram’s heritage
Christine Oliver and Peter Aggleton, Coram’s children: growing up in the care of the Foundling Hospital 1900-1955 Coram Family /Thomas Coram Research Unit, 2000. Based on the life stories of twenty-four former pupils.
Available from Amazon.
Val Molloy. 2002. Identity, past and present, in an historical child-care setting.
Psychodynamic Practice, 8(2), pp. 163-178(16)
Reflects on learning from Coram’s work to support the ex-pupils of the Coram residential school.
Available from Ingenta Connect.
on work with young children
Listening to Young Children
Listening to Young Children is a comprehensive resource pack which enables practitioners and parents to develop and offer young children real opportunities to express their views of experiences and events in their daily lives. Coram is working to produce a new edition of this widely valued pack, in 2010.
To purchase the 2004 edition of the resource pack, please visit the Open University Press website here.
Maria Evangelou, Kathy Sylva, Anne Edwards and Teresa Smith. 2008. Supporting Parents in Promoting Early Learning The Evaluation of the Early Learning Partnership Project. University of Oxford/Department for Children, Schools and Families.
Available for download from the Department of Children, Schools and Families.
Valerie Wigfall and Peter Moss, 2001. More than a sum of its parts? A study of a multi-agency child care network. National Children’s Bureau/ Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Available from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Study of the Coram Community Campus, seen as a precursor to the Sure Start model.
Manifesto 2010: United We Stand: A Voluntary and Community Sector Manifesto for London's Children and Young People
on adoption
Jill Hodges, Miriam Steele, Saul Hillman, Kay Henderson and Jeanne Kaniuk. 2003. Changes in Attachment Representations Over the First Year of Adoptive Placement: Narratives of Maltreated Children. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 8 (July): pp. 351-367.
Available from Sage Journals Online.
Jeanne Kaniuk, Miriam Steele & Jill Hodges. 2004. Report on a longitudinal research project, exploring the development of attachments between older, hard-to-place children and their adopters over the first two years of placement. Source: Adoption & Fostering Journal, 28 (2), Summer, pp. 61-67.
Available from Ingenta.
Lorraine Wallis. 2008. Group work with adopted children. In: Barry Luckock and Michelle Lefevre, Eds. Direct Work: Social work with children and young people in care. London: BAAF, pp 273-280.
Available from BAAF.
Jenny Kenrick, ‘Concurrent Planning: A retrospective study of the continuities and discontinuities of care, and their impact on the development of infants and young children placed for adoption by the Coram Concurrent Planning Project.’ To be published Jan 2010 in Adoption and Fostering, volume 34, no 1, BAAF.
on concurrent planning
Elizabeth Monck, Jill Reynolds and Valerie Wigfall. 2003. The Role of Concurrent Planning - Making permanent placements for young children. BAAF.
Available from BAAF.
on supervised child contact
Alan Slade, 2002. A Guide to Best Practice in Supervised Child Contact, Coram Family/ Lord Chancellor’s Department
