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Reimagining Case Management Systems
The Coram Innovation Incubator is delighted to be hosting the second session in our webinar series with North Yorkshire Council, showcasing the development of a new technology solution to help social workers keep children safe, on Monday 2nd October from 3:30pm-5pm. During this webinar, Jonny Hoyle, Development Lead for…
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“You won’t see things around you in the same way again”
“Objects & Their Stories” is a new course developed by Coram-i and CoramBAAF designed for foster carers and social workers to help support their personal and professional development. In this blog, Morven Nelson reflects on her experience of attending the sessions. About me I’m a Life Story Co-ordinator and…
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The CII Innovation Collective 2022-23
This year’s CII Innovation Collective is now available to download Every year the Coram Innovation Incubator produces the CII Innovation Collective which collates and reports on innovative projects and approaches which have been developed to tackle key challenges facing our sector. You can now read the 2022-23…
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The CII Innovation Forum 2023
The Coram Innovation Incubator is delighted to invite you to a special Innovation Forum for children’s services leaders. The event takes place on Friday 24th March at the Coram Campus in London and…
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Coram-i · Data analysis · Sharing Learning
Data visualisation in Children’s Social Care
The use of quantitative data in children’s social care is still in its infancy when compared with other sectors, and this immaturity means that developments in the various methodologies designed to act as an aid to human decision making, and indeed the understanding of whether our interventions work, is suboptimal.
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Coram Innovation Incubator
Envisaging a New Model of Care: Learning from innovations in the USA
Part 2 of our Coram Innovation Webinar 4pm Tuesday 25th October With the number of children and young people entering the care system growing rapidly, it is becoming increasingly difficult for authorities to find suitable local homes which offer security and stability, whether in foster, kinship or residential care. Across…
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Adoption support · Creative Therapies · Evaluation · Events · Professional Development · Sharing Learning · Social Work · Young People
Is life story work working?
Sarah Taylor, Head of Coram’s Impact and Evaluation Team, reflects on a recent Coram conference on models of life story work and their outcomes Social workers, researchers, therapists and others gathered recently on Coram’s Bloomsbury campus to share new evidence and ideas on how life story work can and should…
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Adoption · Childcare · Coram-i · Foster Care · Professional Development · Social Work · Training
“Everyone should do this course!”
Earlier this year Lorna Jackson was one of the first people to complete a new course developed by Coram called “Objects & Their Stories”. The sessions, presented by Coram-i and CoramBAAF, are designed for foster carers and social workers to help support their personal and professional development. In this…
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Independent Review of Children’s Social Care Final Report
The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care Final Report has been published today. The Department for Education commissioned review calls for a fundamental reset of the children’s social care system, with an investment of £2.6bn to fund a five-year programme of reform, to include more support for vulnerable…
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The 2nd Coram Innovation Incubator Annual Innovation Report
The Coram Innovation Incubator (CII) today released its second annual innovation report “The Art of the Possible in Children’s Services: A Coram Manifesto”. The report is based on the national innovation survey, distributed to all children’s services providers at the end of 2021, which sought to assess where…