Our flagship programmes and events focus on some of the most important opportunities and challenges facing children’s social care. They create spaces for learning, collaboration and practical exploration, bringing together diverse expertise to inform future thinking and support sector improvement.
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Responsible AI and digital practice
We explore how other local authorities are approaching AI and digital transformation, identify promising opportunities and consider the practical, ethical and governance implications for children’s services.
Responsible AI and digital practice event series
Conferences, debates, webinars and expert-led discussions
Our Responsible AI and Digital Practice event series brings together local authority leaders, practitioners, researchers, technology specialists and policymakers to explore how digital innovation can support better outcomes for children and families. Our events create a space to examine both the opportunities and challenges presented by AI, data and digital transformation in children’s social care. Topics have included AI literacy, predictive analytics, workforce transformation, intersectionality, ethics and governance, and the practical use of emerging technologies across children’s services.
Our events explore how local authorities can adopt digital technologies responsibly, strengthen relationship-based practice and improve decision-making. Help build the knowledge, confidence and networks needed to navigate an increasingly digital future.
Previous events include:
- November 2025: AI in Children’s Social Care: For whose benefit, and how do we know?
- September 2025: Insight to Impact: AI, intersectionality and the future of children’s social care
- July 2025: Empowering Change: innovations and insights in children’s social care
- December 2024: Understanding AI Webinar Series: AI for Good, in collaboration with EY
Tech in Children’s Social Care working group
A programme of discussions, evidence gathering and stakeholder engagement
We host a working group to explore how AI, data and digital technology can be used responsibly to improve outcomes for children and families in children’s social care. Bringing together leaders from local authorities, practice experts, researchers, digital specialists, and organisations representing the voices of children and young people, the group provides a space for collaborative thinking on some of the sector’s most pressing challenges. Drawing on expertise from across practice, policy, research and lived experience, the working group aims to produce practical outputs that can inform local and national conversations about the future of children’s social care in an increasingly digital world.
Digital Practice newsletter
Explore the opportunities, challenges and practical realities of AI, data and digital technology in children’s social care.
Designed for practitioners, leaders, policymakers and researchers, the newsletter brings together emerging research, sector developments, case studies, events and expert insight to help the sector navigate an increasingly digital future. Each edition asks a simple question: what’s working elsewhere that could work here? Drawing on learning from across children’s social care and beyond, the newsletter examines how new technologies are being used in practice, highlights barriers to adoption, and explores the ethical considerations that should guide innovation.
Storyteller
Digital life story platform for children in care
Storyteller is an innovative digital life story platform designed to help children in care build, preserve and own their personal stories. Developed through a partnership between Coram and After Cloud, the platform enables children, carers, social workers, family members and other important people in a child’s life to capture and share memories through photos, videos, audio recordings and written messages, creating a living record that stays with them throughout childhood and into adulthood.
Centre of Excellence for Data and Digital in Children’s Social Care
Coram is proud to be a member of the Data2Insight consortium that is funded and supported by the Department for Education in scoping and designing a “Centre of Excellence”, a national support offer for data and digital in children’s social care. The Centre of Excellence will be a major investment by DfE to help boost the capability of LAs to use data and digital in children’s services, and the D2I consortium will work together to design it with the sector. As a member of the consortium, we will support work to determine the scope of the Centre, particularly with respect to how it can help LAs with adopting AI and other emerging technologies.
The consortium for this project represents five organisations, all with longstanding relationships to the sector. The members of the consortium are: Data to Insight, Coram, the LGA, Social Finance, and ICT Revolutions.
Data Standards for Social Care Programme
Coram is working in partnership with Social Finance and the Open Data Institute to develop data and interoperability standards for social care. This work is jointly funded by the Department for Education (DfE) and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), seeking to benefit children, young people and adults supported by social care.
The creation of these standards aims to make it easier for data created in one system to be accessed and meaningfully used in another.
We work with peers and partners to support collective exploration of approaches to improving sufficiency, sustainability and outcomes for children and young people in and leaving care.
Previous events include:
- June 2026: Creating Stability: regional sufficiency in a reformed system
- March 2026: Right Place, Right Support: Rethinking placement sufficiency for children’s social care [invite-only roundtable]
Ignite
Coram-i’s innovation leadership programme
Ignite is Coram-i’s leadership development programme, designed to equip current and emerging leaders with the skills, confidence and connections needed to drive innovation and improvement across children’s social care. System Leader subscribers receive two free places per year. Non-subscribers can purchase the programme for £500 + VAT per person.
Event partnership opportunities
Support the conversations, learning and collaboration shaping the future of children’s social care.
Coram-i offers event partnership opportunities for Innovation Forums and sector events, providing organisations with meaningful visibility and the opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to improving outcomes for children and young people. For organisations seeking a longer-term partnership, wider sponsorship opportunities are available through our System Backer and Flagship Programme packages.
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