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Coram-i · Fostering · Permanence · Sharing Learning
Coram-i and Croydon Council
We are pleased to announce that the contract between Coram-i and Croydon Council has now come to a successful end. In 2018 the London borough of Croydon decided to end its dependence on external agencies for the provision of its foster carers. The LA, with a looked after population of…
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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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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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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…
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Coram-i · Fostering · Sharing Learning · Young People
Understanding why I was taken into care…
Coram-i has undertaken an innovative area of work supporting a local authority to complete Historical Letters for looked after children in permanent foster placements, similar to Later Life Letters in Adoption. Historical Letters in Fostering give older children access to the reasons why they were taken into care and factual…
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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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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…