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Activity Days · Coram-i · Fostering
The child behind the profile – Activity Days for Fostering
Adoption Activity Days, an opportunity for prospective adopters to meet children awaiting adoption, are now a well-established means of family finding. However, facilitating the same opportunity for children requiring permanency via fostering is still a relatively new concept. On the 31st March 2018, just over 53,000 children and young…
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Coram-i
Missing looked after children
The latest data on children looked after in England (including adoption) was published in November 2018[1]. There are some continuing trends in the looked after children (LAC) data, including the continued fall in the number of LAC who are being adopted, which we have discussed in previous blog…
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Adoption · Coram-i · Data analysis · Matching
The Impact of the Adoption Register
Analysis has shown that there is a national shortage of adopters with a 7% decline in the number of people approved as adopters, according to a 2018 data recently published by the Adoption Leadership Board. Despite a rise in the number of children taken into care, the sector is facing…
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Adoption · Coram-i · Data analysis · Matching · Regional adoption agencies
Adoption data and Collective Matching
Last week the ASGLB published data on adoption covering the period 1 April to 30 September 2018 [1]. It is the first time in several years that the ASGLB has published the latest available data before the next round of data collection is completed, and is the closest…
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Data analysis · Fostering
Ofsted’s annual fostering data collection 2017/18
Data on fostering in England for 2017/18 [1] was published at the end of January and while it contains some interesting insights it raises a lot more questions than it answers. For a start the data is collected by Ofsted via an annual data return [2] and…
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Coram-i · Data analysis
Data Visualisation in Social Care
On Monday 10th December over 100 social care practitioners, academics and data experts gathered at Coram’s new Queen Elizabeth II Centre to share promising innovations and ideas about using data visualisation to improve the support for children who need help from local authority children’s services. Coram and its partners,…
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Family Drug & Alcohol Court · Parents & Carers · Sharing Learning
Family Drug and Alcohol Court
By Dr Sheena Webb Children with adverse experiences Most children involved with the Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) have experienced a long period of instability and adversity prior to entering the service. Returning to a safer home environment, with parents who are no longer using substances, is clearly beneficial…
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Adoption · Coram-i · Data analysis · Matching · Regional adoption agencies
Adoption in England – can we predict the state of the system?
Adoption data for the financial year 2017/18 is now available and while some aspects look more positive, following revisions to previously published data, there are still causes for concern. In addition to my analysis of this data, this month I am going to make a prediction about…
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Adoption · Coram-i · Data analysis · Matching
Adoption in England – a system under pressure?
The latest national data on adoption in England has just been published[1]. A hard look at this data reveals that underneath some positive headlines there is clear evidence that more children are coming into the system now than leaving and there are now not enough adopters available to…
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Adoption · Fostering · Fostering for Adoption · Matching
‘Early Permanence’: Foster to Adopt Placements – the Approach and Benefits
Coram first set up a concurrent planning programme in 1999, placing babies with carers who were dually approved as adopters and as foster carers. The babies were all subject to care proceedings and were selected for this project on the basis that the prior family history and the assessments of…