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This two hour training is aimed at local authority professionals – both social workers and lawyers - who are involved in the placement of children currently living in England to kinship carers overseas on a Special Guardianship Order. It will provide an overview of the legal and practice issues regarding special guardianship for children being placed abroad. There will then be ample time to discuss issues in overseas cases during the case study and group discussion.

IN-PERSON EVENT
This in-person conference will be held at the Coram Campus in London on October 12 2026.

Dr Jahnine Davis, National Kinship Care Ambassador, recently published her Insights Report Improving the kinship local offer and approach to kinship care. The event is an opportunity to hear from Jahnine reflecting on the learning in her report and what this means for local authorities developing a local offer.

Coram‑i are pleased to host a one‑day, invitation‑led forum focused on placement sufficiency within a reformed, regionalised children’s services system. Building on learning from Coram‑i’s Right Place, Right Support roundtable, this forum will bring together senior system leaders to reflect on how national reform agendas, including regionalisation, can translate into practical, sustainable action at this time of rapid regional change.

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Preparing and assessing potential adopters and permanent foster carers is key to a successful placement. This authoritative guide will enable family placement workers to approach their assessments with greater confidence. It will ensure that they address key areas, embrace a holistic approach, and attain high standards.

This guide aims to provide foster carers with new skills to help them manage a child’s behaviour and improve their relationship with him or her.

Me and my family is a colourful book designed to help adopted children and their families to get to know each other, just before adoption, in the early stages and later on. Through writing, drawing and other activities, children are drawn into exploring and recording the changes in their lives as they move to their new family.

This in-depth practical guide, written by an adoptive parent for adoptive parents, explores the problems that adopted teenagers (up to 18 years old) are likely to confront and provides suggestions for helpful solutions, helping parents discuss the known – or unknown – aspects of their adopted teenager’s history and be well-equipped to communicate difficult issues.

All young children have worries, but looked after children may have more worries than most as they lack the reassurance and security of permanent, stable family life. In this colourful picture book for young children, Morris the mole finds out that talking about his problems, and facing his worries with the help of others, is more helpful than hiding his fears.