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News, research, policy and practice articles on working with separated families, and maximising the involvement of fathers in the lives of their children post-separation.

Working effectively with fathers to reduce parental conflict

Practice » Separated families
Blog » Separated families

23 March 2022

Photo: Raul Lieberwirth under Creative Commons license The quality of the relationship between parents – and specifically how they communicate and relate to each other – has a significant influence on effective parenting, and on children’s long-term mental health and future life chances.

Moving beyond the ‘non-resident father’ label

FI research » Separated families

14 December 2021

We often hear the phrase ‘families come in all shapes and sizes’ these days. But in research, policy and practice there’s still a tendency to define fathers in a simplistic and binary way: you’re either ‘resident’ or ‘non-resident’.

Blog: Where’s the daddy? Why we need better data on all kinds of fathers

Policy » Separated families
Blog » Separated families

26 February 2018

This blog was published by CLOSER (Cohort & Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources), which is located at the UCL Institute of Education and brings together eight leading studies, the British Library and the UK Data Service.

Young carer services need to get better at engaging with dads

FI research » Separated families
Practice » Separated families

19 November 2015

Services providing help to families in which children and young people are looking after parents, siblings or other family members need to improve their engagement with fathers and father-figures.

Free initial legal advice for dads

Practice » Separated families

18 June 2015

Dads who need help agreeing post-separation arrangements, including child contact, can now access a free initial consultation with qualified solicitors, barristers and mediators.

FI Research Summary: Co-parenting and Early Childhood Development

FI research » Separated families

7 November 2014

Five-year-olds with two supportive parents score more highly on language development. Shared decision-making by mother and father is directly linked to very young children’s better academic and social skills Research shows that babies as young as three months are fully equipped to pay attention to two people at the same time: • Babies can rapidly shift their gaze from one person to the other as the interaction develops, sharing attention and feelings with both adults.

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News

Help us tell the story of dads and co-parenting during the Covid-19 crisis
Covid-19 is throwing up challenges for all sorts of families across the UK, including families where children usually move between households; families in economic hardship; and even ‘better off’, intact families spending more time together in a confined space than they are used to!

Putting dads in the data: why the UK needs a rethink on family statistics
The Government should review data collection on families by all publicly-funded bodies, which currently risk failing millions of children because they typically gather such weak information about fathers.

Penelope Leach’s views on overnights with dad are absurd and wrong
Adrienne Burgess writes: The Fatherhood Institute, a charity established in 1999, does not fight for the rights of separated dads.

FI calls on government to scrap bedroom tax for separated fathers
The Fatherhood Institute is calling on the government to make separated fathers exempt from the bedroom tax and take other steps to ‘draw in’ and support disadvantaged dads – who are more likely to lose contact with their children if they separate from the mother, according to new research.

Training

Case study: Staying Connected at BT
When BT began to look into the issues that affect the separated fathers it employs, it found that there was little support on offer.

Staying Connected workplace courses for separated fathers
Staying Connected is a unique half-day workplace seminar designed to help men navigate the separation journey. Developed in Australia and brought to the UK by the Fatherhood Institute, the course has been shown to help reduce stress among separated dads in the workforce.

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: the Luton approach to thinking fathers
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.