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Assessment and matching · Coram-i services · Project evaluation
Evaluation of Activity Days for Fostering
Activity Days for Fostering were inspired by Adoption Activity Days, and aim to help find long term families for children and young people who will be in care until they are 18. They provide an opportunity for both foster carers and children to influence matching. This evaluation covers our first…
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Coram-i services · Regional Adoption Agencies
Central East Regional Adoption Agency – Lessons Learned
This paper aims to capture the learning from the Central East Regional Adoption Agency (CE RAA) project between June 2015 and July 2017. It is written from the perspective of Coram-i, which led the project during that time, and incorporates the views of the Directors of Children’s Services involved in…
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Coram-i services · Special Educational Needs and Disability
SEND diagnostic and support offer
Background Children and young people with Special Educational Needs (SEN) and/or disabilities often receive a variety of services. These could be provided by nurseries, schools or colleges, specialist therapists, and professionals in education, health and social care. Under the Children and Families Act 2014, the government placed new duties on…
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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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Assessment and matching · Coram-i services · Project evaluation
Evaluation of Adoption Activity Days
Adoption Activity Days are delivered by Coram-i and act as a vital mechanism for finding adoptive families for children, particularly those for whom their agency has been searching for a while. This evaluation report looks at the impact of AADs and the experiences of those involved.
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Coram-i services
Case study: Kent County Council
In February 2012, Coram-i partnered with Kent County Council to improve the LA’s Adoption Service. Coram-i’s task was to improve the service so that it provided a high quality service to children in the authority’s care with a plan of adoption. In the first two years the partnership delivered…
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Coram-i services
Coram-i Adoption Diagnostic
This document describes the potential partnership work between your local authority and Coram-i, to build on good practice in adoption to facilitate early permanence for young children
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Coram-i services
Coram-i Improvement Services
Coram-i can work with your organisation to improve its performance in delivering permanence for looked after children. Find out about our Improvement Services in this leaflet
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Coram-i services
Coram-i Legal Deep Dive
This document sets out the details of potential partnership work between your local authority (LA) and Coram-i in relation to a ‘Legal Deep Dive’ of selected cases