Join us as we delve into Coram Voice’s newly published report, Disability, Disparity and Demand.
This event will provide an opportunity to learn and reflect on contemporary experiences of care leavers and care-experienced young people with disabilities, as well as the recent history of care and disability in both the UK and an international context.
We are delighted to be joined by Dr Claire Baker, one of the authors of the report and Senior Practice Adviser with Coram Voice’s Bright Spots Programme, and Professor Dame Carolyn Hamilton DBE, Director of Coram International at Coram Children’s Legal Centre. We welcome you to reflect with us on how we can improve the lives of those facing unique challenges in the care system.
Read the report here. You can also learn more about Coram’s history as The Foundling Hospital and its engagement with disability at Coram Story.
Echoes of Care
This event is also an opportunity to view Echoes of Care: The Living History of Coram and the Foundling Hospital, an immersive art installation exploring the past and present of the care system. The artwork is named in reference to Coram’s establishment as the Foundling Hospital in 1739, and it uses audio-visual and light installations, as well as other media, to blend the voices of contemporary care-experienced young people with the stories of Foundlings. Collapsing the past into the present and focusing on young people’s journeys and the relationships forged along the way, it asks timeless questions – what does ‘good’ care mean? What does this mean for the care system of the future?
Echoes of Care is the creative culmination of the Voices Through Time: The Story of Care (VTT) programme. Created by The Liminal Space, it integrates words, images and audio produced by care-experienced young people across five years of creative projects, with details of the lives of Foundlings, their mothers and others linked to the Foundling Hospital in its earliest years.
Please arrive from 5pm to view the art installation, enjoy drinks and nibbles, and experience an exclusive, temporary projection on the façade of Coram’s building. Guests will be escorted to the Queen Elizabeth II Centre for the start of the discussion.
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