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Changing children’s lives: Coram Group Digest 2015-2016
Today, 275 years after Thomas Coram’s Foundation for Children became the UK’s first children’s charity, Coram is a group of specialist charities, still dedicated to creating better chances for children.
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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. | 428 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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You can transform a child's life
Since our early days Coram has been at the forefront of children’s support and care. The compassion and principles that drove Coram’s work are upheld by the charity today. We stand up for and help the most vulnerable and at-risk children in society.
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Coram Voice - Advocacy and You
Advocacy is about helping you to speak out about what is important to you. You have the right to have your say and be listened to when decisions are being made about you.
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Coram Capital Adoption - An approach to regionalisation
Coram Capital Adoption is an exciting partnership between a growing group of London local authorities and Coram’s successful independent adoption agency.
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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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Adopters life storybooks research
Charity overview | Thursday 30th July 2015 | Coram and Debbie Watson, University of Bristol | 684 DownloadsThis research, conducted jointly between the UK children’s charity Coram and the University of Bristol, aims to address the absence in the academic literature of adopters’ perspectives on their children’s life storybooks.
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Coram Voice Impact Report 2014-2015
During 2014-2015, Coram Voice supported 3,719 children and young people to get their voices heard, challenge things they were unhappy with, and access what was rightfully theirs. Read more about the young people we work with in this report.