Olivia Plender & Ciprian Mureşan discuss TINA (2008) What’s on in October Join us on Tuesday 25th July for the sixth event in our year long series inviting artists to look back over 20 years of programming at Drawing Room. TINA (2008) was a prescient project initiated by artist Olivia Plender, inspired by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s maxim, ‘there is no alternative’…

Involving Fathers in the Home Learning Environment: book now for our free webinar on Friday 7 October Find out how helping fathers support their children’s learning and development could maximise the impact of Family Hubs, in our lunchtime learning session this Friday (7 Oct) at 12.30 – 1.30pm. This event is aimed at anyone involved in…

Headteacher’s letter urges parents not to buy end-of-term gifts for teachers A number of schools are taking the pressure off parents this year. Is yours? It’s that tricky time of year where every school parent wonders what on earth to buy their kids’ teachers. Nothing seems quite enough for the effort they’ve put in –…

Dear Parents/ Carer, I’m delighted to let you know that this summer, Southwark Council will be hosting Southwark’s Summer of Food and Fun. We are partnering with local holiday club providers across the borough to provide an exciting programme of meals and activities for children and young people in our local communities. Free places are…

Book now: 14 July Join us on a journey into cutting edge, father-inclusive data collection and analysis, in this free event featuring our review of postnatal father-data in UK datasets – part of the Bringing Baby Home evidence review published earlier this month. Book your place here. The event will include talks from Rebecca Goldman, author…

UK fathers in the first year Today we publish the fifth in our Contemporary Fathers in the UK series of evidence reviews, funded by the Nuffield Foundation. Bringing Baby Home explores what we know from empirical research about fathers in the UK in the year following birth. It also includes an in-depth analysis of research gaps. Today…

Book now for our free research events It’s Father’s Day on 19 June: a time to reflect on who fathers are, the impacts they have, and what we do (and don’t do) to help them do the best they can for their children. We’re holding two events in the week leading up the big day: see below…

Working with fathers to reduce parental conflict: join us for a free webinar The quality of the relationship between parents – and specifically how they communicate and relate to each other – has a significant influence on effective parenting, and on children’s long-term mental health and future life chances. Parents in hostile and distressed couple relationships…

Happy International Women’s Day 2022! As set out on the IWD2022 website, there’s so much work to be done, on so many fronts, if we are to build a gender-equal world. Here at the Fatherhood Institute, we’re unashamedly committed to gender equality: it’s a principle that underpins everything we do. We’re also clear in our minds that it’s ONLY…

SEN Newsletter – March 2022 Edition Read the current SEN Magazine online here. In the current issue: House of Commons debate on Tourette’s Covid-19 and SEN law A guide to enteral feeding Spotting dyslexia in class Smart interventions for teachers and much, much more. To read the full newsletter, CLICK HERE.