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Area
Category
SEND diagnostic and support offer. How we can help your local area ensure you are meeting the needs of children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities
Find out how Coram-i can help your area meet the needs of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.
Central East Regional Adoption Agency – Lessons Learned: A case study of the VAA-led RAA project
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, although it was shared with the CE RAA executive group (i.e. the CE RAA DCSs/representatives) in June 2017 and any comments made by them have been incorporated. It aims to aid learning and to highlight enablers and disablers for the process of ‘Regionalising Adoption’ and achieving innovation in cross-sector working.
Coram-Kent post-adoption support partnership summary
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).
The Cornerstone Partnership (2017)
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 data. The two schemes have run since the summer 2015 in partnership with seven adoption agencies
An evaluation of Activity Days for Adoption (2016)
Adoption Activity Days (AADs) 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.
Managing acceptable risk in children’s social care decisions
Briefing note from a seminar on 31 October 2016