Coram

04/06/2026

There’s still time to join Coram Creative Therapy’s roundtable sessions for mental health practitioners and therapists working with children who have a social worker.

These sessions are an opportunity to come together with other practitioners, share insights from real-world practice, and reflect on the challenges of supporting children in complex situations.

The experiences shared will help inform a short report capturing practitioner perspectives and identifying what support and guidance may be needed.

Find out more and book your place:
🔗 https://www.coram.org.uk/training-and-events/learning-from-mental-health-practitioners/

Mental health practitioners working with children in care, on the edge of care or post-care (SGO & Adoption) often face complex decisions on how to best meet children’s emotional needs.

02/06/2026

Community Care has reported on government proposals that would make age assessments by the National Age Assessment Board binding on local authorities.

The proposals have raised concerns from children’s and refugee charities, including the Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium, which Coram Children’s Legal Centre co-chairs.

Anita Hurrell, Head of Policy at Coram Children’s Legal Centre, said:

“Age assessments should be social work led, safeguarding focused and multidisciplinary. Resources should be used to support improved local authority age assessment practice.”

Read the Community Care article:
🔗 https://www.communitycare.co.uk/content/news/home-office-social-work-bodys-age-assessments-to-be-made-binding-on-councils-under-government-proposal

02/06/2026

Tomorrow sees the start of , Club Peloton’s annual cycle challenge event for women in the real estate industry.

The riders are heading to Andalusia, Spain for three days of cycling and networking, raising vital funds for Coram along the way.

Hannah, who works for real estate company Knight Frank is one of this year’s riders, having previously taken on Club Peloton's flagship Cycle to MIPIM challenge in 2024 and 2025.

Club Peloton, celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, is a charitable grant-making organisation bringing industry professionals together over a love of cycling and the opportunity to network while raising money to transform the lives of young people.

Good luck to all the 2026 riders, and thank you so much for all your support for Coram

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28/05/2026

We’re celebrating 10 years of Voices, Coram Voice ’s creative writing competition for children and young people who are care-experienced.

Over the past decade, Voices has provided a powerful platform for young people to share their creativity, experiences and perspectives through writing.

If you’ve taken part in the competition over the last 10 years, we’d love to hear your story. Tell us about your experience, your favourite moments, or what being part of the competition meant to you.

Find out more and get in touch:
🔗 https://coramvoice.org.uk/1000-voices-of-care/

Thank you to long-standing supporters Peter Capaldi, Ashley John-Baptiste, and the team at Transform, for helping champion the voices of children and young people with experience of care.

27/05/2026

Coram Children’s Legal Centre has published a new report on school exclusions, highlighting how tens of thousands of children are being removed from mainstream education due to the growing use of informal practices with no legal safeguards or oversight.

Coram Children’s Legal Centre has found evidence of opaque practices such as off-rolling, internal isolation, managed moves and off-site direction, with significant and often unchecked consequences for children.

The report also finds serious shortcomings in review mechanisms including a lack of independence, long delays and powerless independent review panels (IRP).

Ahead of the Government’s upcoming inclusion reforms, the report calls for clearer national guidance on exclusionary practices operating outside, or on the margins of, the statutory framework. It sets out a series of recommendations to ensure strengthened IRPs and greater transparency and accountability across the exclusions system.

Read the report: 🔗 https://www.coram.org.uk/resource/fairness-in-school-exclusions/

27/05/2026

The CMA review into childcare provision is an opportunity to better understand how the childcare system is working for families.

The 30 hour childcare entitlement has brought costs down for many working families, but some are finding their hours are restricted and they still need to pay for extras, like food, nappies and activities, which are not covered by government funding.

Right now there is still too much confusion and variation for parents, with charges ranging from a few pounds to hundreds of pounds per month.

We need to understand what is happening, why, and how it is affecting families who want to give their child the best start in life and who rely on childcare for work.

The CMA review is an opportunity to do that, and to start building a fairer system – one that properly funds nurseries and childminders to deliver affordable childcare to families.

Read the CMA response:

🔗 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cma-response-to-government-in-relation-to-childcare-provision

For further context on childcare costs and availability for families, read Coram Family and Childcare’s Childcare Survey 2026:

🔗 https://www.coram.org.uk/resource/childcare-survey-2026/

26/05/2026

Introducing new meeting and event spaces at Gregory House, Coram Campus.

Located in the heart of Bloomsbury, just a few minutes’ walk from King’s Cross, Euston and Russell Square stations, Coram offers a historic campus with state-of-the-art educational and meeting facilities.

Gregory House includes a range of versatile spaces ideal for conferences, corporate events, board meetings, training sessions, workshops, informal presentations and evening receptions.

With natural light, hybrid working facilities, first class catering, complimentary tea, coffee and water, and flexible capacity options, our rooms can be adapted to suit a range of events.

Proceeds from your meeting directly contribute to Coram’s charitable mission of supporting the UK’s vulnerable children and young people.

Find out more:
🔗 www.coram.org.uk/meetings

22/05/2026

Visit The Story of the Westerham Foundlings, now open to the public at Quebec House.
A new exhibition at National Trust property Quebec House is shining a light on the lives of the 18th-century children left in the care of the Westerham branch of the Foundling Hospital.

Developed in partnership with Coram, The Story of the Westerham Foundlings explores the lives of some of the 469 children who lived at Westerham’s Wellstreet branch of the Foundling Hospital between 1760 and 1769.

The exhibition presents archival material, interpretive displays and creative responses from local pupils, helping visitors connect with the personal stories behind the historical records.

Visitors can also see contemporary tokens crafted by local schoolchildren in tribute to the foundlings of the 1760s, alongside historic records from Coram’s Foundling Hospital Archive.

The exhibition is now open to the public in the Coach House at Quebec House and will run throughout the year.

Find out more:
🔗 coram.org.uk/news/exhibition-westerham-foundlings/

📷photography by: Nick Hawkes

22/05/2026

What needs to change to make school exclusions fairer for children and families?

Tes magazine has covered Coram Children’s Legal Centre’s new report, Fairness in school exclusions: A roadmap for change, published today.

The report highlights how tens of thousands of children are being removed from mainstream education through “informal practices” such as off-rolling, managed moves and off-site direction.

It also calls for Independent Review Panels to be given powers to reinstate excluded pupils, addressing what Coram Children’s Legal Centre’s describes as an “acute systemic power imbalance” in the school exclusions system.

As Marianne Lagrue, Policy Manager at Coram Children’s Legal Centre’s, told Tes: “With formal exclusions at near-record highs, and informal exclusion practices growing, it seems that this power imbalance has gone too far the other way.”

Read the Tes coverage:
🔗 https://www.tes.com/magazine/news/general/independent-review-panels-should-be-able-to-reinstate-excluded-pupils-schools

Read the report:
🔗 https://www.coram.org.uk/resource/fairness-in-school-exclusions/

This report draws on CCLC’s legal casework representing children facing exclusion, alongside case studies from Coram’s Child Law Advice Service. It highlights how children with the greatest level of need can lose access to education through informal exclusionary practices with little transparenc...

21/05/2026

This , we’re sharing what family building can mean.

Building a family for children who cannot be cared for by their own birth family can take various forms. Both fostering and adoption are great ways to make a positive difference in the lives of children and young people.

Through fostering and adoption, you can offer children love, stability and unwavering support, enable them to flourish in a positive environment and build lifelong bonds.

Find out more about family building:

🔗 first4adoption.org.uk/be-my-family-other-ways-of-caring-for-a-child-in-your-family/what-family-building-means/

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