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Website Helps Families to Grow Together

Parents in Sunderland are discovering a helpful online service which not only offers vital health advice, but also brings families together. The national NHS Baby LifeCheck website provides information and advice to parents of babies aged five to eight months old. However, as many parents across Sunderland are finding, it’s also an invaluable tool for helping parents to bond with their young children. The site suggests games and activities to do together as a family, which can stimulate a baby’s development and encourage family bonding. Paul Noble, from Castletown, was introduced to the

Family Men Go for Gold at Children’s Centre Sports Day

The role that family men play in children’s lives across Sunderland is being celebrated this Saturday at a special Children’s Centre sports day event. The free Dads’ Day event at Sunderland Children’s Centre (Dubmire Primary School) aims to bring families together to celebrate all male carers, including dads, grandads and step-fathers. The family fun day, which is being supported by Groundwork North East, will see the family men take part in a series of traditional sports day challenges from the egg and spoon race and the leaky bucket game to dads’ skipping races and Sparrowhawk, Swallow

Dad Test Audit Helps Organisations Reach More Family Men

A unique programme designed to help organisations improve the services they offer to family men is being launched across the country this month after a successful pilot. The Dad Test Audit from Fathers Plus helps nurseries, schools, childcare providers and Children’s Centres show how effective they are in meeting the needs of male carers. The audit gives organisations a structured, fast and cost-effective way of demonstrating that they meet statutory requirements to include fathers and men, and provides evidence to support statutory reports such as OFSTED. David Van der Velde, Service

Leading Children’s Charity Puts Male Inclusion in the Limelight

Professionals working in children’s services across the North of England have been sharing how to successfully include and involve family men in their child’s education at a series of major conferences. The Fathers Plus ‘Including Men in Children’s Learning’ and ‘Including Men in Schools’ conferences, which took place in County Durham and Manchester respectively, brought together over 200 children’s professionals to share best practice and to hear about the impact of engaging fathers in family services. The day-long events included speakers from across the country with experience of making

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