A one-day Children in Wales course

This course is aimed at both practitioners and their managers who are interested in ensuring that their services are engaging positively with fathers. Participants will consider who are “significant males” and why should we engage with them? The course will explore a number of self-assessment tools which can aid an organisation in identifying strengths and weaknesses in their current approach to working with males, and help to focus on possible areas for service re-design, based on the data analysis.

This course will also look at:

• Fathers and the Law. Who has parental responsibility
• Why fathers matter to children and how alienating significant males can make it harder to work effectively with children and young people
• Research evidence to highlight the benefits for children of services working to engage fathers and other significant males;
• The barriers identified by both males and by services, and suggest approaches which may reduce or remove these barriers.
• Separated and together. How to include fathers when parents no longer live together
• The personal and cultural issues which shape our perceptions of men and fathers
• Looking beyond the stereotypes. Using the lessons of diversity and inclusion to promote the roles of fathers
• What works? Techniques and strategies to involve fathers and significant males

Find out more and book via the Children in Wales website.