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Coram gets ready for National Adoption Week
Coram Ambitious for Adoption is gearing up for National Adoption Week which is being held from Monday 14 to Friday 18 October this year.
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Coram responds to Children's Commissioner's manifesto for children
Coram has welcomed the launch of today's manifesto calling for political parties to back pledges to transform life chances for all children
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Times investigation reveals huge profits made by the Home Office from immigration fees
Today’s Times carries a major investigation into the huge profits made by the Home Office under the current system requiring undocumented young people to pay thousands of pounds seeking to regularise their status in the UK.
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Coram to evaluate Family Group Conferencing for the What Works Centre
Coram will design and run an evaluation for the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care, as part of a programme designed to tackle the root causes of family problems, the Supporting Families: Investing in Practice Programme funded by the Department for Education (DfE).
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Coram Boy comes to the Nottingham Playhouse
This month (7 – 10 August), historical tale Coram Boy will be brought to life in the Nottingham Playhouse’s biggest-ever live community production.
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Reform special guardianship to protect and support children and their carers, says new review
There are significant gaps in the assessment, preparation and support for special guardians according to a new review, led by CoramBAAF, which calls for urgent reform across a number of priority areas to better support carers and children.
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CoramBAAF responds to Children's Commissioner's annual Stability Index
Today the Children's Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, has published the 2019 Stability Index, an annual measure of the stability of the lives of children in care in England.
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New impact report shows how Coram helped more children in the last year than ever before
This month we published our 2018-19 Digest of Achievements, which highlights the impact the Coram Group has delivered for children over the past year as we marked the 350th anniversary of the birth of our founder, Thomas Coram.
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New report from All-Party Group for Adoption and Permanence calls for long-term support for traumatised children
In response to the uncertainty of funding for the Adoption Support Fund (ASF) beyond 2020, the All-Party Group for Adoption and Permanence (APPG) – supported by charities Adoption UK and Home for Good - has conducted an inquiry looking at the future of support, and this week published a report, Investing in Families, summarising its findings and proposing a number of changes to the fund.
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New Coram Family and Childcare report finds working parents facing holiday childcare bill of up to £800
Holiday childcare prices have risen by 3% in Britain since last summer, bringing the average parents now pay for one week of holiday childcare to £138 – more than double the price parents pay for after-school clubs during term time.
