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Final reports evaluating various programmes focused on improving outcomes for children and carers.
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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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Project evaluation · Young people
Impact of Arts & Cultural Education on CLA
The Coram Impact and Evaluation team were commissioned by A New Direction to conduct an exploratory literature review to investigate the nature and impact of arts and cultural education on looked after children. The report was used to gain a better understanding of incorporating arts based activities into looked…
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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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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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Project evaluation
Relative Experience North East Pilot: final evaluation report
This report represents findings of an independent evaluation of the Relative Experience North East pilot kinship carer support programme, delivered by Grandparents Plus, Family Lives and the Family and Childcare Trust and funded by the Silver Dreams Fund administered by the Big Lottery Fund.
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Project evaluation · Young people
My Space evaluation report
Coram evaluated Welcare’s My Space, a project developed by Against Violence and Abuse (AVA) and delivered by Welcare in Bromley, London. The project worked with 7-11 year olds who had been identified as having behavioural and emotional problems and also had experienced domestic violence at home.
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Project evaluation
Parent Champions final report
Coram evaluated Family and Childcare Trust’s Parent Champions programme aimed at encouraging the use of early years services and particularly the take-up of available childcare. The programme involved volunteers acting as Parent Champions talking to parents in the community signposting them to services.