We work tirelessly to develop, refine and deliver the highest quality evidence-based father-inclusive practice training courses – which are underpinned by two decades’ worth of evidence reviews, including evidence gathered and regularly updated using systematic methods for our Nuffield Foundation-funded Contemporary Fathers in the UK evidence review series (2017-2023).

These can and do transform the practice of individual practitioners within the health visiting, Family Hubs, early years, social care and other family-focused services that collectively contribute to the safeguarding of Britain’s children

We’ve produced a range of resources for safeguarding practitioners and leaders, including research summaries, videos co-produced with North East Young Dads and Lads and practice guides for ISAFE, and a guide to Engaging Men in Social Care, to help social work teams and leaders audit their father-engagement and develop more father-inclusive approaches

We conducted two rapid systematic reviews of evidence about non-accidental injury of infants by fathers, father-figures and other informal male caregivers, as part of a national inquiry by the National Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel – whose hard-hitting final report, the Myth of Invisible Men, has been fuelling innovation in the safeguarding sector

All our training is informed by the Myth of Invisible Men report and our earlier work in safeguarding. 

​

Specifically, we’ve developed ISAFE (Improving Safeguarding through Audited Father Engagement) – a new online training intervention package with a ‘practice pathway’ for child protection social workers and a ‘systems pathway’ for their managers in local authorities. We have been delivering this to seven English local authorities as part of a randomised controlled trial to test its impact on social worker attitudes and practice. We hope to offer a version of the programme more widely once the independent evaluation is published, in summer 2024