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This briefing paper outlines information to support safeguarding partners in reviewing their current policies on working with male carers. Recommendations for safeguarding partnerships are:
Future research should focus on fathers and male carers across demographically diverse groups.
This is a joint briefing from the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel (the Panel) and Foundations – What Works Centre for Children & Families. It shares information arising from work undertaken by the Panel and Foundations with safeguarding partners and those working in child protection.
The aim of this briefing is to support safeguarding partners in reviewing their current policies on working with male carers, and to make recommendations on how the evidence base and national guidelines can be further developed.
This paper explores current practice and the evidence base relating to working with fathers to reduce non-accidental injury (NAI) in infants under 1 year old. It builds upon work that Foundations was commissioned to carry out by the Department for Education, and the previous work of the Panel.
The evidence and practice review found that:
