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Placing children across the world in loving families

For more than 25 years, Coram IAC (Intercountry Adoption Centre) has been helping families navigate adopting from across the world.

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Placing children across the world in loving families

For more than 25 years, Coram IAC has been helping families navigate adopting from across the world.

Published 27 February 2024
85%

of intercountry adoption approvals are through Coram IAC

For more than 25 years, Coram IAC has been helping families navigate adopting from across the world.

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Helping families find the right support

The Support Gateway can help adoptive families and families with a special guardianship order (SGOs) find services that will help them to thrive.

Published 3 March 2023

Creating loving families through adoption

We have helped build forever families through adoption for more than 50 years. Today we run one of the UK’s largest and most successful independent adoption agencies.

Published 22 February 2023
5,000

Families supported to consider adoption in the last five years

We have pioneered approaches to bringing loving families together, opening the way for LGBTQ+, single people and those from diverse backgrounds.

Read more about Coram Adoption

Championing children's rights

We provide free legal information, advice and representation to children and young people, families, carers and professionals. Our consultancy work helps uphold children’s rights internationally. We combine our frontline work and our specialist knowledge to ensure children’s rights are embedded in law, policy and practice.

Published 15 February 2023
15,609

People received legal advice via email/phone in 2021/2022

Our Child Law Advice Service provides free legal information and advice on family and education law.

How we champion children's rights

Creative therapeutic services

We offer music and art therapy alongside specialist clinical, therapist and mental health support to help young people and their families build the skills and emotional resilience they need to thrive.

Published 2 February 2023
90%

of parents reported improvement in their child’s behaviour

We have been working with children and their families to support social and emotional development for more than 15 years.

Read about our creative therapies

Birth records

We offer a birth records and counselling service for people who grew up in Coram’s care and their descendants.

Published 1 February 2023
2,255

volunteers have transcribed historic Foundling Hospital archive records

Our Voices Through Time project is preserving priceless, fragile documents dating back to the establishment of the Foundling Hospital.

Find out about your own birth records