Coram PACEY’s Childcare and early years conference 2027

2027 will be Coram PACEY’s 50th anniversary year. The theme for our conference and throughout the year is ’50 years of impact driving a future full of ambition’. Throughout the day, we will be looking back and celebrating the last fifty years of childcare and early years and the contribution of home-based childcare professionals.

Coram BAAF's annual health conference is a key event in the calendars of health and social care professionals working with children in care, adopted children, care leavers, or their carers and parents. Children and young people often describe access to mental health support as a “maze” or a “game of chance”. We will explore why this happens, drawing on leading research across health, social care, and therapeutic services.

Stories, silences, and secrets: donor conception, identity and belonging in contemporary families

Coram and the Thomas Coram Research Unit (based at University College London) hold an annual lecture to consider current themes in research relevant to children and families. This year’s lecture will focus on children and young people migrating on their own to the UK, the persistent disconnects between the realities of young people's lives and current policy and practice responses, and the value of more fully engaging the voices and experiences of young people in research, policy debate and beyond.

This two hour training is aimed at local authority professionals – both social workers and lawyers - who are involved in the placement of children currently living in the UK to kinship carers overseas on a Special Guardianship Order. It will provide an overview of the legal and practice issues regarding special guardianship for children being placed abroad. There will then be ample time to discuss issues in overseas cases during the case study and group discussion.