Our CEO @DrCarolHomden was interviewed earlier today on @UCBNewsTeam, addressing current trends in adoption. Find out more about the You Can Adopt campaign here bit.ly/4huypos

Every day is everything. Children needing adoption wait an average of 646 days for a permanent family. New @Coram & Adoption England analysis warns that by 2030 there may be enough adopters for just 13% of need. Report: coram.org.uk/resource/adopte…

Speaking for Ourselves– a new project led by a care-experienced board working with Coram. With support from @HeritageFundUK coram.org.uk/news/telling-th… Come along to our virtual town hall event on the 29th September - 6.30 to 8.00pm. email speakingforourselves@coram.org.uk

The end of the school term does not necessarily mean that worries about a child or teenager’s emotional wellbeing disappear. 🔗: coramfamilylives.org.uk/abou… @Coram_FL If you are worried about your child, your teenager or your family life: 📞 0808 800 2222 📱 WhatsApp: 07441 444125

The long summer break can sometimes lead to tension at home. 🔗Read the full Families Under Pressure report: coramfamilylives.org.uk/abou… @Coram_FL For free, confidential support with teenage behaviour and family relationships: 📞 0808 800 2222 📱 WhatsApp: 07441 444125

Coram has joined more than 70 organisations across the children’s sector in calling for children’s rights to be placed at the heart of government decision-making. 🔗 Read more about the coalition’s call: bit.ly/4go6Rk9 @CCLCUK #ChildrensRights #UNCRC #WeAreCoram

Holiday club costs rose 5% to £191 a week, while 30,000+ parents and carers contacted Coram Family Lives for support. @CoramFamChild Survey: coramfamilyandchildcare.org.… @Coram_FL Report: coramfamilylives.org.uk/abou… Free WhatsApp support from @Coram_FL 07441 444125.

For separated parents, the school holidays can bring additional pressures 🔗Read the full Families Under Pressure report from @Coram_FL : coramfamilylives.org.uk/abou… For free support with divorce, separation and wider family worries: 📞 0808 800 2222 📱 WhatsApp: 07441 444125

Our CEO @DrCarolHomden is one of the interviewees in this powerful and moving film charting the evolution of adoption over the last 100 years and the challenges facing the modern system.

School holidays can bring added pressure for families. @CoramFamChild Holiday Childcare Survey: coramfamilyandchildcare.org.… @Coram_FL Families Under Pressure report: coram.org.uk/news/families-u… @Coram_FL offers free, confidential support via WhatsApp: 07441 444125.

The school holidays can change the rhythm of family life. Without the usual school-day structure, sleep, meals, screen time and expectations at home may all begin to shift. @Coram_FL For support with parenting or family issues: 📞 0808 800 2222 📱 WhatsApp: 07441 444125

Be a champion for children. Applications are open for Coram’s 2027 London Landmarks Half Marathon team. Sunday 4 April 2027 Registration: £30 Fundraising target: £350 Apply now: coram.org.uk/training-and-ev… #WeAreCoram #TeamCoram #LLHM

Before Churchill lived at @ChartwellNT, it was home to the Westerham Foundling Hospital founded by Thomas Coram. Learn more through The Story of the Westerham Foundlings exhibition with @nationaltrust. 🔗 Exhibition: tinyurl.com/3uhkvfyb

We welcome Andy Burnham's commitment to ending rough sleeping. The Government must also make tackling youth homelessness a national priority. Hear directly from our Voices in Action Housing Rights Ambassadors in the award-winning film Glow in the Dark: piped.video/watch?v=kSsAQTJV…

In @cypnow, James Hempsall, @hempsalls explores how regional decision-making could strengthen local services, improve outcomes for children and families, and recognise childcare as essential infrastructure. cypnow.co.uk/content/comment…

Following the publication of our Holiday Childcare Survey 2026, Coram Family and Childcare is calling on governments to take action to ensure holiday childcare does not remain the poor cousin of early years childcare. We are calling on governments to: • Reinforce the statutory duty to secure sufficient holiday childcare, ensuring provision is properly understood and planned in England and Wales, and introduce a duty to monitor sufficiency for school-age holiday childcare in Scotland. • Allow upfront payments of the childcare element of Universal Credit during school holidays. • Encourage increased holiday childcare provision to improve parental choice and address gaps in availability. • Extend the Experts at Hand inclusive practice training and coaching offer to holiday childcare providers, to improve access for children with additional needs. • Support an increase in childminders so families have access to flexible holiday childcare. Read the full report: coramfamilyandchildcare.org.… #WeAreCoram #HolidayChildcareSurvey #Childcare

Our Holiday Childcare Survey 2026 finds that childminders offer parents the best chance of securing a full day of childcare during the holidays. Across Great Britain, 79% of childminders are open 8am–6pm, compared to only 57% of holiday clubs. Childminders were also found to be more likely than holiday clubs to be open during each of the school holidays. Read the full report: coramfamilyandchildcare.org.… #WeAreCoram #HolidayChildcareSurvey #ChildcareSurvey

Our Holiday Childcare Survey 2026 looks at the availability of holiday childcare for children with additional needs and disabilities. Where this information is known, the lowest sufficiency level is for children with additional needs. Only 9% of LAs in England were able to say they have enough holiday childcare for at least three-quarters of children and young people with additional needs in their area. Only 5% of LAs in Wales report sufficient holiday childcare for at least three-quarters of children and young people with additional needs. Read the full report: coramfamilyandchildcare.org.… #WeAreCoram #HolidayChildcareSurvey

Our Holiday Childcare Survey 2026 looks at what families are paying for childcare during the school holidays. The survey finds that holiday childcare continues to cost almost three times as much as after-school childcare during term time. Across Great Britain, six weeks of a holiday club costs families an average of £726 more than six weeks of after-school childcare. Wales has the highest holiday childcare costs in Great Britain and has seen the steepest annual increase, with prices rising by 10% in the last year to £224 per week. Parents in Wales now face an average childcare bill of £1,342 over the six-week summer break. Read the full report: coramfamilyandchildcare.org.… #WeAreCoram #HolidayChildcareSurvey #ChildcareSurvey

Our Holiday Childcare Survey 2026 is published today. Holiday childcare costs across Great Britain have risen by 5% in the last year, leaving working parents facing an average bill of £191 per child per week, or £1,145 for the six-week summer holiday. The report also highlights a significant lack of information about how much holiday childcare exists in local areas. As Lydia Hodges, Head of Coram Family and Childcare, says: “Holiday childcare is now the missing piece of the puzzle. Read the full report: coramfamilyandchildcare.org.… #WeAreCoram #HolidayChildcareSurvey #ChildcareSurvey #Childcare