Celebrating 25 years this year, Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation (CSSF), is taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2025, the UK's biggest match-funding campaign

Coram has responded to the school exclusion statistics for the autumn term of 2024/2025, published today by the Department for Education (DfE), which show a slight drop in permanent exclusions and suspensions from school in general, while suspension rates for children with special educational needs (SEN) rise.

Coram has partnered with the National Trust property Quebec House in Westerham, Kent to invite local primary school children to take part in an art competition that brings history to life through creativity.

As part of Coram’s collaboration with the UK release of the family film SKETCH, members of the Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation youth board were given opportunity to interview the young actors who star in the film, ahead of the film’s release in UK cinemas on 24 October.

In this blog, Marianne Lagrue, Policy Manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, highlights the growing crisis of school exclusion in England and the work Coram is doing to tackle it.

CSSF Head Mike Tucker sets out how as well as strengthening oracy, drama promotes children’s resilience, wellbeing, and emotional intelligence.

Harriet Gill, Managing Director of Education and Wellbeing at Coram, broadly welcomes the long-awaited update to statutory guidance on relationships and sex education published by the Government over the summer, and argues that life skills education must reflect real world to keep children and young people safe.

Disadvantaged children are at risk of missing out on the same early education as their more affluent peers due to the eligibility criteria of government-funded childcare entitlements, a new report published today by Coram Family and Childcare warns.

In September 2024, AllChild launched its Impact Programme in Wigan, marking its first expansion outside London. Initially engaging 250 children and young people across seven schools in Leigh, they will soon support 230 more children across a further six schools in Atherton and Tyldesley from September 2025.

Summer holiday childcare costs in Great Britain have risen by 4% in the last year, with working parents now facing an average bill of £179 per child per week – £1,075 for the six-week break – according to Coram Family and Childcare’s 20th annual Holiday Childcare Survey, published today.