Stable Homes, Built on Love: the Children’s Social Care National Framework

This consultation session with young people looked at the Children’s Social Care National Framework – what children’s social care will do and who will do it.

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Stable Homes, Built on Love: the Children’s Social Care National Framework

This consultation session with young people looked at the Children’s Social Care National Framework – what children’s social care will do and who will do it.

Published 18 June 2024 By A National Voice
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10,000 Voices: The views of children in care on their well-being report

This Bright Spots report analyses responses from children in care aged 4- 18 years to the Your Life Your Care survey between 2016 and 2021.  The report gives an insight into children in care’s subjective wellbeing and what they feel makes their lives good.

Published 7 November 2022 By Professor Julie Selwyn, Linda Briheim-Crookall, Bright Spots team

New Belongings Programme: Final evaluation report

An independent evaluation by Coram I&E of the three-year New Belongings programme which supported local authorities to better engage their care leavers in service improvements using a co-production approach.

Published 2 November 2022 By Dr Anna Ludvigsen, Dr Sarah Taylor, Coram I&E

The wellbeing of children in care and care leavers – learning from the Bright Spots Programme: Strategic Briefing

This strategic briefing provides an overview of the key messages from the Bright Spots Programme including key findings, practice examples and quotes from children and young people.

Published 22 September 2022 By Professor Julie Selwyn, Linda Briheim-Crookall, Dr Claire Baker

Always Heard Report 2022

An overview of how the service has performed in the last year and the barriers faced by children and young people in care who have accessed the service.

Published 30 March 2022 By Andrew Dickie

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on care leavers’ well-being

This report compares the ‘What Makes Life Good?’ pre-pandemic data, to data from 2020 to 2021, since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Published 12 December 2021 By Anita Chandra, Sarah Taylor, Sam Shorto, Vanessa Patel, Lizzie Gilbert, Coram Impact and Evaluation Team

An Evaluation of the Bright Spots Programme

This evaluation explores how local authorities had used the findings from the Bright Spots surveys to improve the lives of the children they look after.

Published 12 April 2021 By Dr Shirley Lewis, Prof. Julie Selwyn and the Bright Spots team

New Belongings Programme: Baseline evaluation report

An independent evaluation of the New Belongings Programme funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

Published 12 March 2021 By Dr Anna Ludvigsen, Dr Sarah Taylor

What Makes Life Good: Recommendations for Reviewing the Care System

Drawing on the voices of children in care and care leavers, this paper sets out Coram Voice’s position on the framework that should be used for a review of the English care system and our recommendations.

Published 12 November 2020 By Coram Voice

What Makes Life Good? Care leavers’ views on their well-being report

Children in care and care leavers told us how they feel about their lives and what they shared gives us an unprecedented insight into their subjective well-being.

Published 11 November 2020 By Linda Briheim-Crookall, Olivia Michelmore, Dr Claire Baker, Oluwanifemi Oni, Dr Sarah Taylor, Professor Julie Selwyn