{"id":30462,"date":"2026-11-07T19:37:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T23:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/?p=30462"},"modified":"2026-11-08T13:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T17:17:35","slug":"cmf-grantee-the-fatherhood-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/cmf-grantee-the-fatherhood-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fatherhood Institute: Building Caring Cities Through Caring Fatherhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fatherhood Institute works to build a society that systematically values, prepares, and supports men\u2019s fathering. Established in 1999, they are the UK’s leading provider of evidence-driven father-inclusion training, parent interventions, policy advocacy, and consultancy. Their vision is to develop a National Paternity Service for the UK \u2013 the first in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDespite decades of progress towards gender equality, the UK’s family policy, services and systems are still designed around the assumption that mothers should be the primary caregivers for children,\u201d says Alison Clare, the Fatherhood Institute\u2019s Head of Transformation. \u201cOur agenda-setting work challenges everyone in the system \u2013 politicians and policymakers, commissioners of health and family services, frontline professionals and others who shape family life, like employers \u2013 to do better for dads and their families.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Greater Manchester: City of Dads project from the Fatherhood Institute is a stepping stone towards this goal. With funding from the Caring Masculinity Fund, the project is delivered in partnership with key organisations, professionals, researchers, activists and local people across Greater Manchester, which has a population of 3 million. The aim is to develop, for the first time, a coordinated strategy for father-inclusive health, education and family services and employment practices across the region\u2019s 10 metropolitan councils. The Fatherhood Institute and Greater Manchester Combined Authority \u2013 a pan-regional strategic authority \u2013 are working closely together to turn this vision into a reality.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWith this project we want to establish involved fatherhood as a route to inclusive, positive masculinities, a more gender-equitable society, and improved health and wellbeing for all,\u201d explains Alison. \u201cAnd build a replicable blueprint for region-wide reform elsewhere in the UK and globally.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Funding from the CMF has enabled the Fatherhood Institute to develop the key relationships and ways of working needed to lay the groundwork for longer-term collaboration across Greater Manchester, supporting the sustainability of the project.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Greater Manchester: City of Dads project is part of <\/span>MenCare Cities<\/span><\/a>, a growing international movement to design \u2018caring cities\u2019 led by Equimundo. Alongside Equimundo, the Fatherhood Institute has been working with Metropolis and CHANGE to develop the ambition for caring cities in the UK, and to position Greater Manchester as a leader in father-inclusive practice.<\/span><\/p>\n

Phase one of the project involves strengthening father-inclusive workforce practice and cultures across Family Hubs \u2013 publicly funded services for families with children aged 0-19 years \u2013 creating a springboard for wider system change across Greater Manchester. The work includes identifying opportunities to redesign large-scale data collection systems, training practitioners to become fatherhood advocates, and briefing strategic leaders to secure commitment to father-inclusion over the long term. And the responses from these leaders have been overwhelmingly positive.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe strategic leaders showed a high level of buy-in, reflective thinking, and willingness to grapple with the issue of transforming existing approaches to engaging with families to champion father-inclusive practices,\u201d explains Alison.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThis first phase of work has huge potential to be extended and reach more deeply into statutory systems, with the potential to transform men\u2019s, women\u2019s and children\u2019s experiences of fathering across Greater Manchester,\u201d says Alison.<\/span><\/p>\n

Expansion of the project after the initial phase has potential to reach vulnerable families, including in children\u2019s social care, address Greater Manchester\u2019s internal offer for paternity leave for fathers, and to create impact across the city: reaching businesses, football clubs, and the creative industries to tell the story of fatherhood across the city, transforming the experience of fathering for dads in Greater Manchester.<\/span><\/p>\n

To learn more about The Fatherhood Institute, visit their website below:<\/h4>\n

www.fatherhoodinstitute.org<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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