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Helping your child to sleep

Sleep difficulties occur in approximately 48-70% of adopted children compared to roughly 25% of the general child population. We have put together this booklet which includes information about why adopted children may be more vulnerable to sleep difficulties and some of the strategies that families have found useful with their child or young person.

Published 26 November 2019 By Kent Post Adoption Support Team (PAST)

Keynote speech by Sir James Munby (Coram permanence event, Nov 2019)

What is permanence? The lawyer’s first reaction is probably to think of the different legal frameworks by which we seek to achieve permanence. But that is to miss what I suggest is the bigger picture. I want to focus instead on the definition used in Guidance for the Children Act 1989:

Published 25 November 2019

‘Creating Belonging’ – John Diamond, CEO of Mulberry Bush (Coram permanence event, Nov 2019)

I would like to thank Renuka and the Coram Team for inviting me to speak at this event. The Mulberry Bush is a national charity which runs the MBS in Oxfordshire and extended community services. Clearly residential care is not about creating permanence but it has an important role of preparing children for permanence, by providing children with a sense of belonging through:
1. Stability of placement
2. Opportunities for internalising good individual and group relationships (social /emotional and educational learning)
3. Daily experiences with a highly trained and well supported staff group

Published 25 November 2019
Published 4 November 2019 By Hannah Lawrence and Zhulen Ali

Children in ASEAN; 30 Years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in ASEAN

In November 2019, UNICEF EAPRO published a report developed by Coram International marking 30 years of the UNCRC in the ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) Region.

Published 1 November 2019 By UNICEF East Asia & Pacific

Casting Light in the Shadows: Child and youth migration, exploitation and trafficking in Vietnam

In 2016 Coram International was awarded funding from the Home Office’s Child Trafficking Protection Fund (CTPF) for a 2.5 year project that aimed to work towards ending the trafficking of children within and from Vietnam.

Published 2 October 2019 By Kara Apland and Elizabeth Yarrow