Why we need fairer policies for mums and dads: Guardian video

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Why we need more focus on dads in the First 1000 Days
The Government’s proposed First 1000 Days strategy should include, as a priority, the provision of detailed guidance to ensure that pre-conception, maternity and post-natal services reach out to, engage with and support expectant and new fathers. 

FI partners with Lancaster University to research men in childcare
Update: Check out the GenderEYE website and Twitter. Only 2% of the UK’s early childhood education workforce (ECE) are male – a figure that has remained stubbornly resistant to change for several decades. 

Children’s centre managers: don’t miss our last free seminar!
We are offering FREE places at a seminar, ‘A FATHER-INCLUSIVE APPROACH TO SUPPORTING COUPLE RELATIONSHIPS AND CO-PARENTING’, to be held on 13 March at The Priory Rooms in Birmingham. 

Bringing Fathers In: helping global activists embrace ‘dad power’
    Almost 10,000 people have already downloaded our Bringing Fathers In #bringingfathersin materials, designed to help professionals from a range of disciplines work in ways that embrace and build on fathers’ vital role in improving children’s outcomes. 

Training

Creating father-inclusive health and social services: one-day course
  The government’s Healthy Child programme says: “The contribution that fathers make to their children’s development, health and wellbeing is important, but services do not do enough to recognise or support them. 

Becoming father-inclusive: a Fatherhood Institute programme of training and supervision across a London borough
The Fatherhood Institute worked with thirteen Children’s Centres across one London borough in 2008 to 9 to help develop their services to become more father-inclusive. 

Case study: Hit the Ground Crawling at St Edmund’s Children’s Centre in Bradford
Staff at St Edmund’s Nursery and Children’s Centre in Bradford undertook Fatherhood Institute training to run Hit The Ground Crawling, a peer based mentoring course for expectant and new fathers.  

Dad Factor INSET training for schools
The Dad Factor is a package of INSET training for schools, family learning and extended school services and the staff who work in these settings including head teachers, teachers, learning assistants, mentors, family learning teams, community education staff, school nurses and counsellors.