Carol Homden has been chief executive of charity Coram for more than a decade. During her tenure, Coram has grown to become a group of specialist charities providing services and shaping policy across early years support, education, social care and children's rights. The charity, which celebrates its 350th anniversary this year, has recently been at loggerheads with ministers over their decision to scrap the Adoption Register for England that helped match hard-to-place children and which Coram ran for the Department for Education.
The government said online systems could do the job of the adoption register more effectively. Do you understand why ministers scrapped it?
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