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Training brochure
26 October 2021
Fathers and breastfeeding – what’s it got to do with them?
3 August 2021
Free online groups for new and expectant dads during Covid-19
23 October 2020
Workplace seminars for dads and mums
1 July 2018
Schools – boost your results by becoming a FRED provider
9 July 2013
Creating father-inclusive health and social services: one-day course
16 December 2011
Workplace courses and resources
18 October 2011
Becoming father-inclusive: a Fatherhood Institute programme of training and supervision across a London borough
16 December 2010
Case study: Hit the Ground Crawling at St Edmund’s Children’s Centre in Bradford
15 December 2010
Fathers@ web package
4 November 2010
Why invest in Staying Connected?
4 November 2010
Case study: Staying Connected at BT
4 November 2010
Staying Connected workplace courses for separated fathers
4 November 2010
Dad Factor INSET training for schools
15 September 2010
FI Training: Dad Factor mini-conferences for schools
13 September 2010
FI Training: Dad Factor one-day course for schools
13 September 2010
Domestic Violence: Northern Practitioners Networking Meeting
27 April 2010
Boys’ Development Project Trainings
27 April 2010
The ‘Brave’ Project – training
29 March 2010
PIP guide: Surrey post-natal father assessment
26 February 2010
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For an initial discussion about any training or consultancy, please contact:

  • Jeszemma Garratt
    Head of training
    0791 786 4130
    j.garratt@fatherhoodinstitute.org



About our training and consultancy

The Fatherhood Institute offers a comprehensive range of services to support all children and families service providers.

Our courses are delivered by experienced Fatherhood Institute trainers and include a mixture of taught sessions, workshop exercises in small groups and large group discussions. All our courses show you how to develop and implement a whole-team approach to engaging with fathers.

The courses we offer are aimed at service managers and frontline workers from a variety of settings, including Children’s Centres, maternity services, child protection, schools and family learning services, Job Centre Plus, child and adolescent mental health services, teenage pregnancy services and youth offending teams.

We offer off the shelf courses, or can work with you to develop a bespoke course focused on your specific needs.

The Fatherhood Institute’s consultancy services can help you transform your services and strategies: we can also develop audit solutions for your local authority or primary care trust.



Training

Training brochure
Watch our quick guide to FI training clip (1 min) Many ‘official’ guidelines and policy documents call on family services to engage more, and more effectively, with fathers. 

Fathers and breastfeeding – what’s it got to do with them?
It is World Breastfeeding Week, and to celebrate we are offering a special 20% discount on our Fathers and Breastfeeding – What’s it got to do with them? 

Free online groups for new and expectant dads during Covid-19
Dads have a critical impact on babies, but during the Covid-19 pandemic, fathers face significant extra challenges. Many dads are being excluded from NHS appointments, scans or early labour, and access to health visitors or other family support is limited.  That’s why we’re teaming up with Best Beginnings to run small online groups for dads, under a Barnardo’s programme funded by the Department for Education. 



News

Half of UK parents not happy with paternity packages offered by employers
A new ‘Paternity League’ Table released today (4 October 2022) by childcare service Koru Kids, shines a spotlight on the most and least generous paternity leave packages that the UK companies on Glassdoor’s ‘Top 50 Best Places To Work 2022’* offer. 

Unhappy Father’s Day: the dad-shaped hole in UK postnatal services
NHS maternity, health visiting and other family services are failing babies by ignoring their fathers during the first postnatal year, according to our latest evidence review, Bringing Baby Home, published for Father’s Day 2022. 

Sources of help for fathers during the Covid-19 crisis
Families in the UK, and around the world, are experiencing unprecedented challenges, ranging from enforced proximity to enforced separation, not to mention coping with financial stress and the difficulties of keeping small children entertained. 



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