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Educators | Early Years and Childminding

Coram Beanstalk
Coram Beanstalk equips adults and young people to ‘do reading’ better with children through volunteer reading helpers, school and peer mentoring programmes and community groups. The more children encounter confident, capable and inspiring support with their reading, the more they are likely to stay on the path to becoming a reader

Coram SCARF
Coram SCARF is the leading charity provider of relationships, health, wellbeing, and drugs education to children across the UK. Their PSHE education supports over 50,000 teachers and reaches over 600,000 pupils every year.

Coram Family and Childcare
Many parents in the UK today are frozen out of work by the cost of childcare. Coram Family and Childcare works to change this and to make the UK a better place for families through their definitive research – such as the annual Childcare Survey – and parent-led programmes.

Conflict Training
Coram Leap Confronting Conflict is a national youth charity that provides life-changing conflict navigation training to young people and the adults who support them. We deliver trauma-informed training, co-create projects with young people, and provide tailored support so that every young person can thrive in the face of challenges.

RSHE bespoke training
Coram SCARF offer a comprehensive, fully resourced RSHE scheme of work for 3-11 year-olds; high-quality, educator-led workshops for pupils; and free and low-cost staff training.

Coram Shakespeare School Foundation
Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation enables thousands of young people to perform in the world’s largest youth drama festival, building their confidence, teamwork and willingness to learn through performing Shakespeare live.

Coram Tomorrow’s Achievers School Resources
Coram Tomorrow’s Achievers have designed specialist, thought-provoking and enriching escape-room style challenges and resources for curious young people focused on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Maths (STEAM).

Shakespeare Schools Theatre Festival
Each year thousands of young people from primary, secondary and SEND schools across the country unite in the world’s largest youth Shakespeare festival.

Coram Hempsall’s
Founded in 1999 by James Hempsall OBE, Hempsall’s supports organisations independently and within Childcare Works programmes – notably in early years, childcare, the Holiday Activities and Food programme (HAF), local authorities, and central governments – to achieve change and deliver best practice, with a particular focus on tackling inequality and the effects of disadvantage.

Coram PACEY (The Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years)
The Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY) was formed in 1977 as the voice of childminders, dedicated to supporting home-based child carers including childminders and nannies to provide high quality services, information and advice to children, their families and carers. Coram PACEY will continue this vital work, benefitting from the shared infrastructure and multi-disciplinary expertise in Coram to develop further capacity in the early years.

National Association of Family Information Services
The National Association of Family Information Services (NAFIS) is the only national membership organisation supporting local authorities to deliver high quality information and advice to families. NAFIS provides a focal point for lobbying government, access to key decision makers, a monthly newsletter, regular webinars, a fantastic annual conference, and a secure email network which enables members to share information and best practice

Books Together
The Books Together programme works to support parents of young children to read together regularly through a series of informative and interactive sessions. The programme will provide useful tips, resources and ideas to encourage families to discover the joy and fun of reading together.

Story Starters with Coram Beanstalk
Our Story Starters training is rooted in academic research into using books to develop language and emergent literacy skills. It equips early years professionals and volunteers with a range of techniques, including dialogic reading, to get the most out of time with books.