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Youth Insight
Part of the Coram Institute, Youth Insight helps and empowers young people to produce high-quality research informed by their experience and expertise. Youth Insight provides a pathway to young and emerging researchers, offering them the opportunity to develop their skills and lead/undertake rigorous research projects that turn experience into insight, and insight into impact.
Dedicated to the protection and promotion of children’s rights
Coram International works with governments, UN bodies, IGOs and NGOs around the world to protect and promote children and young people’s human rights.
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We provide professional support to local, national and international governments and organisations to uphold children’s rights.
Explore our workProviding early permanence for children
We aim to provide young children in care proceedings with the opportunity to live with their forever family as early as possible. This early permanence gives young children emotional, physical and legal security, which can make a huge difference to their lives.
adoption agencies have joined our Early Permanence Network
Our Early Permanence Network enables adoption agencies across the country to share best practice in finding lasting families early for young children.
Read more about early permanenceInfluencing practice and policy
CoramBAAF is the UK’s leading membership organisation for professionals working across adoption, fostering and kinship care. We provide expert advice and resources to 300 members, including local authorities, agencies, trusts, and a wide range of professionals.
people attended our training in 2021 - a record
The most popular topics included Making Fostering Assessments, Child Permanence Reports and Life Story training.
Find out more about CoramBAAFResearch and evaluation of children's services
The Coram Impact and Evaluation team works with public sector, commercial and third-sector organisations as well as children, parents and academics to evaluate services for families and children and help improve them.
published reports and briefings
Our team of experts in qualitative, quantitative and participatory research are skilled in working with children, young people, parents and carers, and professionals to help organisations that deliver children’s services see what’s working.
Find out moreInnovation and insight for local authorities
We provide pioneering expertise and resources that help local authorities improve children’s services and the outcomes they achieve for children.
local authority adoption services achieved significant performance improvements
Our expertise, tools and approaches have led to significant improvements in how local authority adoption services deliver services for children.
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