We are making a video about parents and babies, to be used in workshops for first-time parents. We’re looking for dads and mums to take part in the film - and would like to hear as soon as possible from interested …

Revised in January 2011, this Fatherhood Institute research summary covers: trends in father involvement in the UK; aspirations; satisfaction;family and work stress: fathers’ experiences; leave policies and father involvement; father-care, gender equity and child wellbeing; fathers’ employment and child wellbeing; business/economic costs/benefits of father involvement; and low income fathers’ employment.

‘For too long, our culture has treated boys who become fathers . . . as detached misfits who are the architects of many of our nation’s problems, rather than seeing these youth for who they really are: young men trying

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Revised in December 2010, this Fatherhood Institute research summary covers: levels/trends in fathers’ involvement in schools; fathers v. mothers: involvement in education; the care/education ‘nexus’; fathers’ earnings and education; children’s behaviour at school; brain development; fathering quality and educational attainment; fathers and literacy; fathers v. mothers: influence on attainment; and interventions: effectiveness.

Creating new opportunities for dads to become involved in learning activities with their children was the aim of the Dads in Demand project. The result was a project that not only gave children and their dads opportunities to learn something …

More than 2,000 primary schools, nurseries, pre-schools and other settings, including prisons and libraries, took part in the first ever Fathers’ Story Week, in the run-up to Father’s Day 2010.