Resource library
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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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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 | 85 DownloadsHow effective are art and music therapy in supporting vulnerable children and young people?
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Family Lives befriending pilot: final evaluation report
Sharing learning Professionals Evaluation | Saturday 1st June 2013 | Roland Marden, Rumi Rabindrakumar and Sophie Laws | 33 DownloadsCoram offers specialist consultancy evaluation services to a variety of institutions providing research and policy analysis, support for service evaluation, and participatory research with children, young people, parents and staff
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Community cohesion through schooling
Sharing learning Professionals Evaluation | Saturday 1st June 2013 | Dr. Kairika Karsna, Dr. Sophie Laws and Jaspreet Hayre | 30 DownloadsCoram has worked effectively in inner-city communities for many years, and aims to share what it has learnt about effective outreach to diverse populations
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Fostering for Adoption: Practice Guidance
Sharing learning Adoption Professionals Fostering for Adoption | Saturday 1st June 2013 | John Simmonds, British Association for Adoption and Fostering | 2462 DownloadsFostering for Adoption is a Department for Education (DfE) scheme aimed at ensuring that more children can be placed with their potential permanent carers on a fostering basis while the local authority seeks a placement order from the courts
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What Works in Achieving Adoption for Looked After Children
Sharing learning Adoption Professionals | Friday 1st March 2013 | Di McNeish and Sara Scott, DMSS Research | 118 DownloadsThe Coram Centre for Early Permanence (CCEP) works with local authorities and independent adoption agencies to develop and share expertise with the aim of ensuring more children can live with their potential permanent carers at the earliest possible stage of the care process
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Coram-Harrow partnership report
Coram changes the way professional decisions are made, with an emphasis on placement outcomes - ensuring children are placed earlier and quicker, and in greater numbers
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A Guide to Best Practice in Supervised Child Contact
When the relationship of parents breaks down, it is not only the adults who suffer and wherever possible the child should have the opportunity to remain in contact with both parents. Coram's Guide to Best Practice in Supervised Child Contact is aimed at helping professionals plan and manage contact between parents and children in complex cases.
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Practice note 2: Infancy contact research
As the nations leader in concurrent planning, Coram researched the effects and implications early placement have on the emotional development of infants and young children
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Concurrent Planning - Early Permanence for Babies in Care Proceedings
Sharing learning Adoption Professionals Concurrent Planning | Friday 1st January 2010 | Coram | 177 DownloadsCoram set up its Concurrent Planning project in 1999, and is now the only dedicated team nationally