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Coram-i · Fostering · Sharing Learning
Permanency Planning and Long Term Fostering Innovation Project
In November 2017, Coram-i held a seminar as part of its project on Permanency Planning and Long Term Fostering, which is funded by the Department for Education’s Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme. The event brought together the four pilot sites involved in the project (Manchester City Council, Northamptonshire County…
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Coram-i
Adoption Activity Days
“We just knew that he was the child for us, older than we ever had imagined but his personality so shone through on the day.” Autumn is upon us and Coram’s Adoption Activity Days (AAD) team have been busy planning for the next run of these family finding events, which…
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Fostering
Activity Days for Fostering
Following the success of Adoption Activity Days, these events for fostering aim to focus on securing families for children who need to remain looked after under fostering arrangements. The ethos of the events remains the same, in that the emphasis is on bringing together children and young people who are…
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Adoption · Matching
Adopter sufficiency
There is a growing concern that there are not enough prospective adopters available for all the children who are waiting to be adopted. A high level analysis I conducted in January 2017 using published data for 2015/16 concluded that there would soon not be enough prospective adopters available and this has…
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Coram-i
Coram awarded innovation funding!
Coram has been awarded funding from Department for Education’s Social Care Innovation Programme to work with four local authorities to help them make better use of data to improve the stability of long-term foster placements. Renuka Jeyarajah-Dent, Director of Operations at Coram said: “We are delighted to receive this…
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Regional adoption agencies
RAA delivery models
I’d like to get your thoughts on what potential benefits there would be for a VAA that partnered with a local authority to form a Regional Adoption Agency Joint Venture. For a LA I think it’s relatively straightforward – they at least get an adoption service that meets their needs (hopefully!) For VAAs,…
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Coram-i
Coram-i website is now live
The website will be home to our resources so that you will be able to access them all in one place. The content has been organised into categories to make it easier for you to find what you are looking for. Some content will be available to everyone and some…