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Help us achieve A Great Dad for Every Child: watch our new video
Dads matter hugely to their children. If you have a positive relationship with your dad, you’re likely to do better at school, be happier, have higher self-esteem, and even form better relationships when you’re an adult. 

Fathers Who Have Lost A Baby: Research Participants Wanted
The University of Roehampton is researching the experience of grief and counselling for fathers who have lost a baby due to late miscarriage, stillbirth or early neonatal loss and who sought support for their bereavement in the form of group, individual or couples counselling (even if they didn’t continue with it).  

Family organisations join to urge more help for young dads
Young fathers need more support to help them develop and maintain a positive presence in their children’s lives, according to a new report by a coalition of family support organisations including the Fatherhood Institute. 

Parenting leave reforms a ‘lost opportunity’ to modernise, FI warns
The government’s proposals for changing the system of leave entitlements for new parents, announced by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg on November 13, send a perverse message to families. 

Training

Could you promote and deliver our Raising Happy Children courses?
Are you based in or close to Camden, High Peak or Middlesbrough? Are you interested in developing your career by undertaking a new franchise opportunity? 

Family Foundations – our new ante- and post-natal classes for mums and dads
Family Foundations (FF) is a series of seven enjoyable ante- and post-natal participatory classes for expectant mothers and fathers, aimed at enhancing parent and child well‐being. 

PIP guide: Surrey post-natal father assessment
This is one of a series of guides to help agencies develop father-inclusive services, produced by the Department for Children, Schools and Families’ Parenting Implementation Project (PIP), which ran from early 2008 until June 2009. 

PiP guide: Developing and sustaining father-friendly services across Lincolnshire
This is one of a series of guides to help agencies develop father-inclusive services, produced by the Department for Children, Schools and Families’ Parenting Implementation Project (PIP), which ran from early 2008 until June 2009.