The Story of New Belongings: Improving services for care leavers with care leavers – Final Report

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The Story of New Belongings: Improving services for care leavers with care leavers – Final Report

The New Belongings report shares key learnings from the three-year programme and offers practical resources that any local authority can use to improve their care leaver services. The Bright Spots survey for care leavers Your Life Beyond Care was one of the key tools used as part of the programme.

Published 1 January 2023

New Belongings Programme: Final evaluation report (2022)

New Belongings was a three-year programme (2019-2022) delivered by Coram Voice to support eight local authorities in England to better engage their care leavers in service improvements. Though better engagement and involvement of young people as experts in their own experience, the programme aimed to encourage local authorities to improve their support for young care leavers.

Published 11 November 2022 By Dr Anna Ludvigsen and Dr Sarah Taylor

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.

Published 7 November 2022 By Coram Impact & Evaluation Team

10,000 Voices: Children in care’s views on their well-being report

For almost a decade the Bright Spots programme has worked with children and young people to explore what they feel makes their lives good. The 10,000 voices report highlights what children in care felt about their well-being.

Published 1 November 2022 By Selwyn, J. & Briheim-Crookall, L. (2022) 10,000 Voices: The views of children in care on their well-being, Coram Voice and the Rees Centre, University of Oxford

Young Citizens Evaluation Report

Coram’s Young Citizens programme aims to make a positive impact on the lives of 16-25 year olds from migrant and refugee backgrounds. Approximately 950 Young Citizens Participants attended 114 peer-led workshops between July 2019 and August 2022 which were co-produced and delivered by 63 Young Citizens Trainers (YCT), who used their experience of overcoming challenges when moving to the UK to help their peers.

Published 28 October 2022 By Lizzie Gilbert, Emma Borjes and Richard Ollerearnshaw

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.

Published 17 October 2022 By Coram