Your partner to achieve change and opportunities for children and families

Since 1999, Coram Hempsall’s has been delivering on early years and childcare policy implementation, quality and outcomes, and the safeguarding of children, young people and vulnerable adults, with a strong commitment to anti-discriminatory practice.

We support practitioners, providers, organisations, local authorities, and central governments to achieve high quality, sustainable early years and childcare. We provide project management, consultancy, research, and training in national, regional, and local strategy, planning, service improvement, curriculum and pedagogy best practice, child protection, and service delivery.

Our work

We have helped others to develop many thousands of childcare places, shaped local policy and strategy (e.g. Sure Start, children’s centres, Family Hubs), and supported and challenged the national implementation of childcare sufficiency duties, early learning for least advantaged two-year-olds, 30 hours childcare, Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme, and now wraparound childcare and expanded early years entitlements.

We deliver hundreds of training sessions, workshops and events each year for early years and childcare providers, schools, local and national charities and corporate organisations, trustees and management committees, and retail brands.

The ease of which our thinking is developed and challenged (nicely!) is so useful. No one else brings the sector together the way [Coram] Hempsall’s do, and the ‘knock-on’ impact of that is varied, but very much tangible, e.g., shared resources, problem solving together, [and] peer support.
Local Authority
Local Authority Satisfaction Survey 2023

100%

of local authorities in our 2023 customer survey said they were satisfied or very satisfied

154

top tier local authorities working with us to deliver early years and childcare programmes

up to 1,000

training workshops for providers and professionals provided by us each year

Our consultancy and research

Whether it be a problem that needs solving, new ideas developing or implementing, or innovation to design and deliver, we are pleased to help.

Our team works in partnership with you, your partners and service users, right from the start, and throughout our delivery – which could be as short as one day, or for as long as 10 years.

“Our mission remains to achieve change and better opportunities for children and families.”
James Hempsall OBE
Founder and Managing Director, Coram Hempsall's
“The integration of Hempsall’s into the Coram Group holds the potential to make even more difference to early years and childcare services available to families.”
Dr Carol Homden
CEO of the Coram Group

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