Resource library
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The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on care leavers’ well-being (2022)
Sharing learning Young people | December 2021 | Anita Chandra, Sarah Taylor, Sam Shorto, Vanessa Patel, Lizzie Gilbert Coram Impact & Evaluation Team | 4 DownloadsIn this follow-up report to What Makes Life Good (2020), we examined how the views of care leavers in England on their well-being have changed, or not, in light of the pandemic. We compared the pre-pandemic data from 1,804 care leavers aged 16-25 in ‘What Makes Life Good’ to newer data from 2,476 care leavers in 2020 to 2021, since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. This analysis of Coram Voice’s Your Life Beyond Care survey was enabled by funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
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Young Citizens Programme Evaluation: interim report July 2021
This interim report analyses feedback from young people and professionals involved in Coram’s Young Citizens Training Programme from July 2019 to March 2021.
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What Makes Life Good: Care leavers’ views on their well-being (2020)
Sharing learning Young people | November 2020 | Linda Briheim-Crookall, Olivia Michelmore, Claire Baker, Oluwanifemi Oni, Sarah Taylor, Julie Selwyn | 6 DownloadsFor this major report, we analysed responses from 1,804 care leavers in 21 local authorities in England collected between 2017 and 2019 through Coram Voice’s Your Life Beyond Care survey. The study was carried out in collaboration with Coram Voice and the Rees Centre, University of Oxford.
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Data Visualisation in Children's Social Care
Evaluation Professionals Sharing learning Young people | Thursday 4th July 2019 | Renuka Jeyarajah-Dent | 153 DownloadsNew research published today by Coram demonstrates the enormous potential of data visualisation to improve decision-making and performance in children’s social care.
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Understanding sleep problems experienced by young people (2019)
Sharing learning Young people | April 2019 | Hannah Lawrence & Olivia Michelmore, Coram Impact & Evaluation Team | 0DownloadA rapid review of literature was conducted by the team to find out what recent research tells us about sleep problems experienced by unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and children in care. The review, which was conducted from January to March 2019, aimed to understand the nature of the problems experienced by these young people to help with the development of the Coram Sleep Project. For both groups of children there were few studies found that focused on sleep problems specifically. Sleep issues were often a small part of studies about mental health more generally.
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Children today: Securing health that lasts a lifetime
The presentation from Children Today: Securing health that lasts a lifetime, the event hosted by Coram and the Children and Young People's Mental Health Coalition on 8 May
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Findings from a longitudinal study of early placements (2018)
This report presents the messages for policy and practice that were derived from the 2017/18 longitudinal research with parents who adopted their children through Coram’s concurrency programme. The research builds upon previous work conducted by Coram’s Impact and Evaluation team in 2011 and represents the first ever sample to be followed through concurrent planning over such a long period. Of the 12 adopters that participated in this latest wave of research, the majority (10) were also involved in the 2011 research facilitating a discussion of how their lives have evolved overtime. Additionally, for the first time, two young people shared their experiences of concurrency through qualitative interviews.
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Investigating the Efficacy of Art and Music Therapy with Vulnerable Children and Young People: A Systematic Review
Sharing learning Professionals Evaluation Creative Therapies | Wednesday 25th October 2017 | Anna Ponomarenko, Jade Yap, Uzma Peeran | 175 DownloadsHow effective are art and music therapy in supporting vulnerable children and young people?
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Measuring the number of vulnerable children in England (2017)
Find out how Coram and Coram International helped to deliver the Office of the Children's Commissioner’s Report on Vulnerability, to enumerate and understand the experiences of vulnerable children.
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An evaluation of Activity Days for Adoption (2016)
Adoption Activity Days (AADs) are delivered by Coram-i and act as a vital mechanism for finding adoptive families for children, particularly those for whom their agency has been searching for a while. This evaluation report looks at the impact of AADs and the experiences of those involved.