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Area
Category
Adoption Matching – Practice Guide (2016)
This report is a practice guide that draws upon the evidence obtained from a Department for Education-funded study of matching practice in adoption services.
A Lifetime of Difference: 50 years of Coram Adoption
Coram has published ‘A Lifetime of Difference’ report, celebrating 50 years of Coram Adoption’s work. The report, which coincides with National Adoption Week, explores our five decades of impact on children and families.
The wellbeing of children in care and care leavers – learning from the Bright Spots Programme: Strategic Briefing (2022)
This briefing provides an overview of the key messages from the Bright Spots Programme. Although it is aimed at strategic leads and senior managers, the contents are of relevance to anyone working with children in care and care leavers.
Staying Connected: The views of looked after young people on their contact arrangements
Staying connected explores the views and experiences of children in care shared through the Your Life, Your Care surveys. It analyses over 7,500 responses and 3,000 comments to questions about spending time with their birth parents, brothers and sisters.
An Evaluation of the Bright Spots Programme
This evaluation explored how local authorities (LAs) had used the findings from the Bright Spots surveys to improve the lives of the children they look after.
The Voices of Children In Care and Care Leavers on What Makes Life good: Recommendations for Reviewing the Care System
The Voices of Children in Care and Care Leavers on What Makes Life Good focuses on what care-experienced children and young people have said about their wellbeing, drawing on Coram Voice’s ongoing work with thousands of care-experience children and young people.