Best Coach Dads at Work

The Best Coach Dads at Work project is funded by the Parenting Fund and aims to promote active and positive fatherhood, with particular emphasis on engaging fathers in their children’s learning and development.

The project seeks to enable VCS organisations (VCSOs) and Local Authorities to:

- engage fathers in the workplace in supporting their children’s learning and development through the use of innovative learning materials, and

- increase awareness and access of local parenting and family services by fathers

The target group are fathers in the workplace, who are in low-paid employment and do not access support from children's services. The project will train 15 VCSOs that are delivering family services in Birmingham to deliver Family Learning to Learn sessions with fathers; and intensively support the VCSOs to reach 300 fathers in 30 workplaces. 100 practitioners will be trained in the second year, and a toolkit will be developed and disseminated.