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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.
Voices in Action Ambassadors
Coram's Voices in Action Ambassadors are 16 - 25 year olds with personal experience of homelessness and school exclusion. They campaign locally and nationally to change policy and practice and empower their peers with knowledge of their rights through workshop delivery and content creation.
School Exclusions Hub
Our School Exclusions Hub offers free information and resources for professionals and community organisations supporting children and their families to challenge school exclusions.
children were permanently excluded from school in 2021/22
The hub is the UK’s largest online resource covering every aspect of school exclusions.
Find out moreDedicated 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 workConnecting past and present care experiences
We are digitising the oldest records in our archive to preserve Coram’s unique history, help care-experienced young people connect with their predecessors, and enrich thinking about care today.
volunteers have transcribed historic Foundling Hospital archive records
Our Voices Through Time programme is preserving priceless, fragile documents dating back to the establishment of the Foundling Hospital.
Read about Voices Through TimeTransforming lives through the unique power of Shakespeare
We work with schools across the UK to give young people a unique opportunity to build their confidence, skills and knowledge by learning about and performing Shakespeare in the world’s largest youth drama festival.
young people gained confidence and skills through Shakespeare
Every year we work with schools across the UK to stage our award-winning Coram Shakespeare Schools Festival, the world’s largest youth drama festival.
Discover how Shakespeare changes young lives