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.

When the St Michael’s Fellowship began to focus on services aimed at fathers, its approach was initially ‘tokenistic’, admits project coordinator Matt Hay. Since then, the south London organisation’s New Dad project has forged powerful links with Guy’s and St …

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 …

Many policy documents and some legislation require family, health and education professionals to engage with ‘parents’. This should, of course, mean that they engage with fathers as well as mothers – but research show that this tends to happen all …

Making sure your agency registers key information about all dads as a matter of course is a MUST. In fact for all agency staff to ROUTINELY gather such details is the single most important step to engaging with substantial numbers …

The picture for UK fathers of Black Caribbean heritage is complex since as many of their children are now conceived with partners from outside Black Caribbean communities than are conceived within them. This pattern is not yet strong among UK …