Families Need Fathers
Key Facts
Location
Project Criteria
Contact
Ms Nadja Singh
Email
Project funding
£128,250
Funding round
About FNF
FNF provides support and information to parents and families experiencing separation. Its aim is to help parents achieve child-centred agreements to ongoing parenting arrangements and avoid fractured parent/child relationships.
FNF's services are provided by around 300 volunteers as well as the national office team and board of trustees. Support and information is provided through 30 branches nationwide, a national telephone helpline, internet forums, parent support workshops, website, publications and fact sheets. It also conducts charitable lobbying in support of shared parenting, and is a regular contributor to government consultations.
Increasing support to separated families in Liverpool
The project proposes to:
1) Strengthen access and take up of services and support for separated families and fathers, through the establishment of a branch office and support team in Liverpool,
2) Improve the network of support available to separated families and fathers, as well as the Team around the Child, through collaboration and sharing of best practice and training with other family and children support services, including the local authority
3) Promote active and positive fatherhood, through recreational and educational activities that engage fathers and their children, as well as public awareness and marketing campaigns conducted on a local level.
Beneficiaries
The project will target:
Separated parents – assisting them in reaching child-centred parenting agreements and reducing conflict
Fathers – ensuring the barriers to their involvement are reduced and that fathers are encouraged to engage with agencies providing support to children and families
Child and family support workers – ensuring that they understand the needs of separated families, and adapt their policy and practice to ensure that these needs are being met and that services are inclusive of separated parents and fathers.
FNF has recently adopted PQASSO as its quality and monitoring framework