Coram-i Resources
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Operating in Local Partnerships to Achieve Permanence for Children Now and in their Future Lives
Professionals | Friday 13th November 2015 | Philip Segurola, Director of Specialist Children’s Services at Kent County Council | 5 DownloadsPhilip Segurola (Director, Specialist Children’s Services at Kent County Council) discusses how local authority partnerships have led to improved outcomes for children in Kent at a Coram-i seminar.
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Culture and Leadership to Support Service Quality Throughout the UK
Professionals | Friday 13th November 2015 | Dave Hill, Executive Director for People Commissioning at Essex County Council | 10 DownloadsDave Hill (Executive Director for People Commissioning, Essex County Council) talks about the importance of culture and leadership and the challenges of achieving permanency for children in local authority care at a Coram-i seminar.
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Adopted children and young people’s views on their life storybooks: the role of narrative in the formation of identities
Adoption Professionals | Wednesday 21st October 2015 | Dr Debbie Watson, Sandra Latter and Rebecca Bellew | 19 DownloadsThis paper reports on interviews conducted with twenty children and young people adopted from the care system in England, exploring their experiences and views of their life storybooks and examines the role of life storybooks as a form of narrative that contributes to identity development.
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Relative Experience North East Pilot: final evaluation report
This report represents findings of an independent evaluation of the Relative Experience North East pilot kinship carer support programme, delivered by Grandparents Plus, Family Lives and the Family and Childcare Trust and funded by the Silver Dreams Fund administered by the Big Lottery Fund.
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My Space evaluation report
Coram evaluated Welcare’s My Space, a project developed by Against Violence and Abuse (AVA) and delivered by Welcare in Bromley, London. The project worked with 7-11 year olds who had been identified as having behavioural and emotional problems and also had experienced domestic violence at home.
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Parent Champions final report
Coram evaluated Family and Childcare Trust’s Parent Champions programme aimed at encouraging the use of early years services and particularly the take-up of available childcare. The programme involved volunteers acting as Parent Champions talking to parents in the community signposting them to services.
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The Door is Closed
Children are becoming homeless as a result of local authorities' failures, according to children's charity Coram Voice
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Case study: Kent County Council
In February 2012, Coram-i partnered with Kent County Council to improve the LA’s Adoption Service. Coram-i’s task was to improve the service so that it provided a high quality service to children in the authority’s care with a plan of adoption.
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Improvement Services
Coram-i can work with your organisation to improve its performance in delivering permanence for looked after children. Find out about our Improvement Services in this leaflet
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Adopters life story books research
Adoption Professionals | Tuesday 13th October 2015 | Rebecca Bellew Coram and Dr Debbie Watson, University of Bristol | 3 DownloadsThis research, conducted jointly between the UK children’s charity Coram and the University of Bristol, aims to address the absence in the academic literature of adopters’ perspectives on their children’s life storybooks.