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Resources on adoption support, including research on life story work and its impact on adopted children’s lives.
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Adoption support · Coram-i services
Coram-Kent post-adoption support partnership
Coram-i has been working in partnership with Kent County Council since 2012, helping it to improve its adoption service from an inadequate Ofsted judgement (2011) to a Good judgement (2017). Our support has been based on our improvement framework: effective data collection and analysis; robust performance management; and continuously looking at how the service can…
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Adoption support · Project evaluation
Raising Kinship Children
Raising Kinship Children is a parenting programme, developed jointly between Grandparents Plus and PAC-UK for kinship carers who were raising kinship children who demonstrated challenging behaviour. Our evaluation of the intervention found all kinship carers benefitted from the ten week course in some form: either from gaining new parenting skills,…
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Adoption support · Project evaluation
The Cornerstone Partnership
Coram’s evaluation of Cornerstone’s mentoring and Restorative Parenting Training schemes for adopters found that the programmes were viewed as high quality by adopters and social care professionals. Coram explored the effectiveness of the services through interviews with adopters, an online survey, focus groups with professionals and analysis of local authority…
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Adoption support · Assessment and matching
Experience of adopting through Coram
An adopter discusses his experience of adopting a child through Coram as part of a same-sex couple.
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Adoption support
Adopted children and young people’s views on their life storybooks: the role of narrative in the formation of identities
This paper reports on interviews conducted with twenty children and young people adopted from the care system in England, exploring their experiences and views of their life storybooks and examines the role of life storybooks as a form of narrative that contributes to identity development.
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Adoption support
Adopters’ life story books research
This research, conducted jointly between the UK children’s charity Coram and the University of Bristol, aims to address the absence in the academic literature of adopters’ perspectives on their children’s life storybooks.