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Coram launches #RealStoriesOfCare campaign to showcase diverse care experiences of young people today and through the ages
Coram today launches #RealStoriesOfCare, a new digital campaign, led by care-experienced young people, which aims to explore the personal stories of care-experienced children and young people today and through history.
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Thirty Coram Beanstalk and Coram Life Education partner schools to receive new laptops and education packs donated by The Very Group
Coram is delighted to announce that 30 schools working with Coram Beanstalk and Coram Life Education across Liverpool, Bolton and the East Midlands will receive 300 laptops and education packs as part of Coram Beanstalk’s ongoing partnership with The Very Group.
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Voices Through Time: The Story of Care programme features on BBC Radio London
Voices Through Time: The Story of Care programme manager, Amy Cotterill and former Foundling Hospital pupil, John Caldicott were interviewed on BBC London’s Jo Good show following the launch of Coram’s ambitious project to digitise its archive dating back to when it was established as the Foundling Hospital in 1739.
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Renuka Jeyarajah-Dent, director of special projects at Coram, highlights importance of tackling ACEs in children's mental health discussion
Renuka Jeyarajah-Dent OBE, director of special projects at Coram, has participated in a fascinating Government Events discussion with the eminent psychiatrist Dr. Geraldine Strathdee CBE on preventable causes of mental illness in children.
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Harriet Gill of Coram Life Education interviewed on BBC Radio London for Safer Internet Day
Harriet Gill, Managing Director of Education and Wellbeing for Coram, has been interviewed on BBC Radio London's Carrie and David Grant show about how children can stay safe online.
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Peter Capaldi returns to host Voices creative writing competition for children in care and young care leavers
Coram Voice is excited to announce that actor Peter Capaldi will return to host the sixth annual edition of Voices, the creative writing competition for children in care and young care leavers across the country. The competition is open for entries from 4 February to 31 March.
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Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid has much to teach us 100 years on
A century after its release on 6th February 1921, Charlie Chaplin’s first full-length feature film The Kid has lost none of its freshness and relevance, and has much to teach us about love, parenting and what it means to care for a child
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Coram launches ambitious programme to digitise its archive and bring the story of care to life
Coram today embarks on the first major phase of its ambitious new Voices Through Time: The Story of Care programme, with the help of volunteer transcribers, to digitise its archive dating back to when it was established as the Foundling Hospital in 1739.
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Join us for Transcription Tuesday
Coram’s ambitious new programme, Voices Through Time: The Story of Care, has been chosen by family history magazine Who Do You Think You Are? as one of the projects for its popular annual Transcription Tuesday event, taking place on 2 February.
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Coram welcomes the launch of the independent review of children's social care
Coram has welcomed today's launch (15 January) of the government's independent Care Review.
