Training & events programme

Fostering in Colour is the first documentary of its kind in the UK, telling the stories of Black and global majority foster carers in their own words. Join CoramBAAF for a screening and panel discussion on November 3 2026 at the Coram Campus in London.

The Digital Lives of Care-experienced Children project, based at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and funded by the Nuffield Foundation, is examining how care-experienced children and young people secure the digital access, and develop skills and confidence they need, and how the adults and systems around them can support them.
This webinar will introduce the project and share emerging findings from its first phase: a mapping of the policy and practice landscape relating to digital inclusion and digital skills for this cohort. We will explore how issues such as digital access, online safety, skills and preparation for adulthood are reflected in policy and guidance; where responsibilities for supporting young people’s digital lives sit; and where gaps, inconsistencies and opportunities for stronger practice may be emerging.

This open course course will enable participants to increase their understanding of the role of permanence in children's lives. By reflecting on best practice, it will help those attending to form permanence plans that are geared to improving the outcomes for children and young people, including their emotional, cognitive and physical development.

There has been an increase in the number of ‘relinquished’ babies and children needing adoptive families. Placed with their parents’ consent, agencies commonly use early permanence placements for these children.

This course will look at the relevant statutory frameworks and recent case law. It will also explore the challenges of working with relinquished babies and their parents, some of the complexities of the background histories of relinquished babies, the importance of counselling for relinquishing parents, care planning and the support needs of relinquished children and their adopters.

The 9th International Conference on Adoption Research (ICAR) was held at the University of Porto in July 2026. This was an opportunity for researchers, professionals, adopted people and adopters from across the globe to discuss ideas, innovation and information, together with best-practice and contemporary evidence in adoption. In this session, we are delighted to be joined by a diverse team of specialists and academics who attended and presented at ICAR9, to discuss some of the learning and consider how this can apply to the children and families here in the UK.

A specialist briefing for case management systems specialists, practice leads, data and performance leads, social work practitioners and CoramBAAF forms contacts

This two hour training will provide an overview of the legal and practice issues regarding Convention Adoption for children being placed abroad. There will then be ample time to discuss issues regarding Convention Adoption overseas cases during a case study and group discussion.