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 | 64 DownloadsHow effective are art and music therapy in supporting vulnerable children and young people?
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Preventing Unplanned Pregnancy and Improving Preparation for Parenthood for Care-Experienced Young People
Professionals | Wednesday 17th February 2016 | Dr Debbie Fallon & Professor Karen Broadhurst of the Universities of Manchester and Lancaster on behalf of Coram. | 349 DownloadsIt is now widely acknowledged that care-experienced children and young people are at increased risk of poor life outcomes when compared to peers who have not spent time in a care setting. They are also at heightened risk of teenage pregnancy, which significantly increases the likelihood that these disadvantages will be transferred to the next generation.
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Improvement services
Coram-i can work with your organisation to improve its performance in delivering permanence for looked after children. Find out about our Improvement Services in this leaflet
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Legal Deep Dive
This document sets out the details of potential partnership work between your local authority (LA) and Coram-i in relation to a ‘Legal Deep Dive’ of selected cases
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Adoption Diagnostic Analysis
This document describes the potential partnership work between your local authority and Coram-i, to build on good practice in adoption to facilitate early permanence for young children
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Case study: Kent County Council
In February 2012, Coram partnered with Kent County Council to improve the LA’s Adoption Service. Coram’s task was to improve the service so that it provided a high quality service to children in the authority’s care with a plan of adoption.
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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 | 32 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 | 29 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 | 2371 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