If you are a child in care or a care leaver, you can receive support from an Advocate.

They ensure your involvement in decisions, help you speak up, and more.

📲🗺️ Find your local advocacy service here: ow.ly/cTGb50RqQVg

Calling #TeamCoram 📢🏃‍♀️🧑‍🦽🏃‍♂️

Will you take on the Royal Parks Half and be a champion for children?

Sunday 13 October 2024

Registration fee: £30
Minimum fundraising target: £350

Sign up here: runforcharity.com/coram/royal-pa…

#BetterChancesforChildren #WeAreCoram

At Coram Exchange Days social workers from different #adoption agencies meet prospective adopters to share information about children awaiting adoption. Our next Exchange Day is on Thursday 23rd May in the West Midlands . More info here: ow.ly/6PbX50GuHhj #YouCanAdopt

Join Coram for this free event and learn more about #mentalhealth 👇

Kinship care and Special Guardianship: what it is and what it means

This short, colourful booklet is part of our series of guides for children & young people, which aim to explain concepts in adoption & fostering that they may find difficult.

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In 2021 I did an interview about Coram, Dickens and Foundlings, as part of Care Experienced History Month. Here’s the podcast - and I think it’s worth sharing again. open.spotify.com/episode/3jz105…

Placing children living in the UK overseas on a Special Guardianship Order

20 June | 10.15am - 12.30pm | Zoom

We will provide an overview of the legal and practice issues regarding special guardianship for children being placed abroad.

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Looking to make a difference in a young person's life?🙌

🗺️We are looking for Independent Visitors in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

Find out more: jobs.coram.org.uk/vacancy-detail…

📢 You're invited! 🌟

Join us for a webinar on how local authorities develop services for children in care based on their voices! 🌟

Discover insights from the Bright Spots Programme, impacting over 25,000 youths.

🗓️ Wed, May 8, 12:30-14:00.

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Last month at our jungle-themed Adoption Activity Day in London we enjoyed sunshine, laughter and really positive connections were made 🌞

Learn more about Adoption Activity Days: [email protected] ✉️

Thanks @Bigyellowss for keeping our Jungle animals safe⭐

New event📢
Beyond the Headlines: Childhood and Wellbeing in a Changing World
Building on the momentum of #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek , this free online event delves into mental health research and tackles the question: what should we do?
20 May
6.15– 7.30PM
coram.org.uk/event/beyond-t…

📢 New research analyses the rates and patterns of early permanence in London finding that it has some of the lowest rates of children placed for adoption.

Find out more ➡️ socialworktoday.co.uk/News/early-per… Coram CoramBAAF Coram-i Dr Carol Homden

Every month we release a free chapter from one of our bestselling publications. For April, we are sharing the introduction and Chapter 3 from 'Group work with adopted children and young people’.

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Coram Voice’s Specialist Advocacy Service.

Find best practices for advocacy with care leavers, homelessness, those with disabilities, and more.📚

📲 Learn more: ow.ly/ErQH50RqQ6X

Max Stanford, Coram's head of Impact and Evaluation, writes on new Coram research identifying the barriers and drivers of early permanence adoption placements in London. Children & Young People Now
#BetterChancesforChildren
#WeAreCoram #EarlyPermanence
cypnow.co.uk/features/artic…

Great session this afternoon with Coram and LA FGC service managers as part of this project, helping draft options for better data around the local FGC offer to families.

The full report will come via Foundations later this year.

🌈Building Families Through #Fostering & #Adoption : Join our free webinar with Now Foster on Thursday 16th May 5.30-6.30pm. Social Work Professionals, Foster Carers & Adopters will be on hand to answer all your questions. Info here:
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Last month, Head of Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation, Mike Tucker, attended a sector discussion event on the importance of Shakespeare in education.

Find out what the attendees had to say: shakespeareschools.org/news/post?id=62