Register your interest: Undertaking a fostering assessment in England
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Why these legal guides are in every starter pack
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Jo Francis introduces two of our essential short legal guides, Fostering Now and Adoption Now. The guides are designed to help social work professionals quickly access the legislation, standards, and guidance they need. Created with busy practitioners in mind, these practical, time-saving resources are ideal for anyone working in fostering or adoption.
Head of RAA Operations
Head of RAA Operations
Coram Ambitious for Adoption is a unique Regional Adoption Agency, being a Voluntary Adoption Agency commissioned to deliver the adoption services for nine local authorities. This role is a Coram Appointment to lead the RAA operations across our local authority partners providing professional leadership staff and services and outcomes for children in adoption consistent with best practice and fulfilment of statutory and regulatory requirements.
Coram Ambitious for Adoption
£70,000 per annum FTE (circa £42,000 - £56,000 per annum pro rata)
Coram Campus, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1AZ
21- 28 hours per week
The new Form F (Prospective Foster Carer Report): Focusing on the child’s needs and how carers can meet them
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Form F (2025) has been updated to improve its language and tone, making it more accessible for both carers and assessors. One of the most important changes is the addition of a new section focused on children’s needs—and how prospective carers can meet them.
Looked after children statistics
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Summary statistics on children in care and children adopted from care for each country in the UK
Administrative Assistant (Training and Events)
Administrative Assistant (Training and Events)
We are a looking for an administrative assistant to join our small but busy, dedicated and friendly team. We arrange over 150 courses a year for more than 3000 people on a wide range of topics supporting practitioners in adoption, fostering and kinship. Courses are delivered online as well as in person. We pride ourselves on working as collaboratively as possible, while also recognising our individual areas of expertise and responsibility. The postholder will play a key part in the effective coordination and smoothly running of our training and events programme.
CoramBAAF
£15,124.20 per annum (£25,207 FTE)
Based in London, hybrid of Coram Campus and home working available
21 hours, over at least three days, to be agreed
Foster Care Fortnight: The power of relationships - helping children in care learn to trust and thrive
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In this heartfelt conversation for Foster Care Fortnight, foster carer Paul Calder shares powerful stories that highlight the importance of consistent, compassionate relationships in helping children in care learn to trust and thrive. Through practical examples and emotional turning points, Paul emphasises how small, everyday actions can have lasting impacts on a young person’s sense of belonging and self-worth.