Early Years

The Gender Equality Duty places a statutory obligation on public services to meet the different needs of men and women.

The Father Inclusion Audit from Children North East Fathers Plus gives you a structured, fast and cost effective way of ensuring that your organisation is inclusive of fathers and male carers.

It helps teams and organisations to:
• Audit present effectiveness in father/male carer inclusion, to understand strengths and barriers within services

A Full day of formal learning plus remote support, trainer pack, resources and trainer helpline

Training the Workforce
The Train the Trainer programme will ensure that up to 25 staff (nominated by managers as Fathers Champions) are able to deliver the ‘Introduction to working with Fathers and Male Carers’ two hour course. Each of the 25 staff will be provided with the resources to train their colleagues, stakeholders and volunteers. This will enable all staff in each locality/cluster to receive a basic grounding in how and why they should work with fathers.

Aim

This full day course will focus on developing your family audiences and programmes with an emphasis on engaging with fathers and male carers.

Participants will look at:

Enhancing family event programmes to include fathers
Developing partnership work with local dads groups and organisations
Identifying barriers to male inclusion in your venue
How to get fathers and family men though the door and how to keep them: focusing on collections, resources, publicity, recruitment and activities.
Developing team father/male involvement plan.

Working with Fathers early on matters to children in later life.

This full day course will focus on engaging family men from ante natal to nursery:

Participants will explore:
The needs of dads-to-be and how to develop and deliver services to meet these needs.
The Importance of male involvement in breastfeeding and how best to support dads.
How to get fathers and family men into early years services and how to keep them: Looking at publicity, recruitment and activities
The importance of male involvement in early learning

Better exam results, better school attendance, less criminality, better mental health...These are just a few of the outcomes that are associated with father involvement in children's learning. (DfE 2006)

This training covers the key agendas that specify the inclusion of fathers and family men in their children's school life and learning and gives practical methods of how to engage dads within your school

Participants will:

Identify barriers to father’s engagement and look at how to overcome them.
Build confidence within the workforce in working face to face with fathers

“Many of the serious case reviews commented on the lack of attention to the role of fathers and what was known about them. This concern often related to fathers who did not live in the family home and to other male adults involved in the family” Ofsted review 2011

The full day training will allow social care teams to develop a clear understanding and a corporate view of how, as a team, they can include and involve fathers and men to ensure best outcomes for children

Participants will:

Gain an understanding of the importance of engaging with men in social care systems

This full day course will give a basic introduction for multi agency workers and managers who have not attended training on working with fathers and men or wish to refresh previous basic training.

The training will explore:

Participants own feelings about working with fathers and men
Why dads and male carers matter so much in outcomes for children
Barriers to male engagement in their settings and how to address them.
Practical ideas to begin engaging with family men.