Activities
The headquarters of the charity are at Mecklenburgh Square in London. It works with children separated from their parents, supports vulnerable families, and lobbies on policy and practice issues in childcare through its various services, such as Adoption, Housing and Support (formerly Leaving Care Services and Creative Therapies), and the Parents' Centre (which was a pilot project for Sure Start).
Coram Life Education is the largest health education program for children in the UK, with a fleet of nearly 100 mobile classrooms that visit 4,000 schools around the country.
Coram Children's Legal Centre provides the free national Child Law Advice Line, a 24-hours service covering education, immigration and family law issues. It also provides extensive international consultancy.
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Famous quotes containing the word activities:
“Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.”
—Frank Moore Colby (1865–1925)
“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
“Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still the most important law today and, as such, has remained the basic concern of all movements which have at heart the community of human activities and of human existence in general.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)