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Fostering for Adoption A child-centred solution: A guide for prospective FfA carers
Fostering for Adoption | September 2017 | Elaine Dibben, John Simmonds, Jeanne Kaniuk | 24 DownloadsOur guide is aimed at helping you to decide whether you could be a Fostering for Adoption (FfA) carer and explain the routes to becoming approved as an FfA carer.
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The sex and relationship education needs of young people: a review of research and school survey findings
Schools must be in a position to deliver statutory Sex and Relationships Education from September 2019. Coram Life Education, which provides PSHE education to nearly half a million children across the UK, wanted to understand how well schools are prepared to meet their statutory obligations, and what their support needs are.
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Three centuries of creating change for children: Coram Group Digest 2016-17
This year, Coram benefited more than one million children, families and professionals. Work also started on building The Queen Elizabeth II Centre, which will open in 2018 as we celebrate the 350th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Coram, our founder and key historic champion of children’s rights.
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Brexit: children’s rights at risk or future opportunity in the global era?
Children live in a different world to their parents and grandparents. For them the virtual world has no borders. Around 1 in 15 children were born to a parent not born in the UK; and in 2015 over 1 in 4 births were to women born outside the UK. Children’s home environments, their classrooms and their wider world are different places from the past and they live in a rapidly changing global environment.
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Coram's Autumn Newsletter
Adoption Concurrent Planning Creative Therapies Young people | Wednesday 5th October 2016 | 90 DownloadsCoram's Autumn Newsletter with the latest news, events and updates.
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Coram Life Education and the Ofsted Inspection Framework, 2015
Discover the relevance and importance of PSHE education and SMSC development and the role of Coram Life Education in helping schools obtain Good or Outstanding in their Ofsted reports.
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Coram Life Education Programme Review
This document gives a synopsis and a set of learning outcomes for each of Coram Life Education’s primary-age programmes (three to 11 year olds).
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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. | 445 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.