Lockdown Fathers: the untold story

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.