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  • Permanency Planning and Long Term Fostering Innovation Project

    Coram-i · Fostering · Sharing Learning

    Permanency Planning and Long Term Fostering Innovation Project

    28 Nov 2017

    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…

  • Adoption Activity Days

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    Adoption Activity Days

    18 Oct 2017

    “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…

  • Activity Days for Fostering

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    Activity Days for Fostering

    14 Sep 2017

    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…

  • Adopter sufficiency

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    Adopter sufficiency

    14 Aug 2017

    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…

  • Coram awarded innovation funding!

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    Coram awarded innovation funding!

    2 Feb 2017

    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…

  • RAA delivery models

    Regional adoption agencies

    RAA delivery models

    15 Sep 2016

    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,…

  • Coram-i website is now live

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    Coram-i website is now live

    14 Sep 2016

    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…