A quick guide to FI training

Training

Training brochure
Watch our quick guide to FI training clip (1 min) Many ‘official’ guidelines and policy documents call on family services to engage more, and more effectively, with fathers. 

Fathers and breastfeeding – what’s it got to do with them?
It is World Breastfeeding Week, and to celebrate we are offering a special 20% discount on our Fathers and Breastfeeding – What’s it got to do with them? 

Free online groups for new and expectant dads during Covid-19
Dads have a critical impact on babies, but during the Covid-19 pandemic, fathers face significant extra challenges. Many dads are being excluded from NHS appointments, scans or early labour, and access to health visitors or other family support is limited.  That’s why we’re teaming up with Best Beginnings to run small online groups for dads, under a Barnardo’s programme funded by the Department for Education. 

News

Unhappy Father’s Day: the dad-shaped hole in UK postnatal services
NHS maternity, health visiting and other family services are failing babies by ignoring their fathers during the first postnatal year, according to our latest evidence review, Bringing Baby Home, published for Father’s Day 2022. 

Sources of help for fathers during the Covid-19 crisis
Families in the UK, and around the world, are experiencing unprecedented challenges, ranging from enforced proximity to enforced separation, not to mention coping with financial stress and the difficulties of keeping small children entertained. 

UK fathers get ‘all clear’ to support mums in labour and childbirth: advice updated
Updated 15.12.2021: Please note: This article was written in April 2020, and the situation has since changed, such that visiting restrictions are in place in many NHS maternity (and other services).