Family Rights Group
Key Facts
Location
Project Criteria
Contact
Steve Caldwell
Email
Project funding
£140,059
Funding round
This programme builds upon Round 1 and 2 Fathers Matter projects to improve the safe engagement of fathers, in the care of, and decisions about, their children's lives. We will:
- Provide hands on support to five parenting fund local authorities, including Southwark and Southampton to help embed best practice on working with fathers.
- Run four Fathers Matter training courses for social workers with subsidised places for those from Parenting Fund localities.
- Undertake action research in child welfare in the five parenting fund localities on working with fathers who are violent within the home, including:
- auditing child protection case files, local policies and procedures
- conducting focus groups and interviews with 120 social workers and managers, mothers, fathers, and if feasible, children on effective intentions; and
- running a workshop with child, parenting, domestic violence organisations, including those running perpetrator programmes.
- conducting reviews of international literature, practice models and the legal framework including case law on domestic abuse and the interface between private and public law. The findings would be launched at a national conference and would inform:
- Future Fathers Matter consultancy and training;
- The development of a day training course for social care practitioners on working with abusive fathers, to be piloted in two parenting fund localities;
- A series of FAQs for fathers on our website on law and practice; and
- An e-learning resources pack for training social workers including podcasts made with fathers and practitioners from parenting fund authorities.