The APPG for Fatherhood promotes the wellbeing of children by ensuring that legal and policy frameworks keep up with the changing nature of family life and that legislation encourages active and responsible fatherhood.
1. Calls for more men to work in the early years
24/04/2019 - Department for Education
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Found: children in the early years.
The project, run by the Fatherhood Institute, will challenge the stereotypes that
2. Fatherhood
30/07/2015 - APPGs
Found: The APPG for Fatherhood promotes the wellbeing of children by ensuring that legal and policy frameworks
3. Fatherhood Institute - written evidence
09/10/2018 - Inquiry: First 1000 days of life - Health and Social Care Committee
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Found: Written evidence - Fatherhood InstituteFDL0038 Written evidence from the Fatherhood Institute 1.0 Executive
4. Working Party on the Family, Lords and Commons Family and Child Protection Group - Supplementary Submission - written evidence
06/02/2019 - Inquiry: Immersive and addictive technologies - Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee
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Found: modelsTackling Digital and Gaming Addiction through Fatherhood (By Richard Keeble) There
5. Debate on the Impact of 'A Manifesto to Strengthen Families'
27/10/2017 - Parliamentary Research
Found: addition, the manifesto promotes the role of fatherhood in strengthening families, which it argues could
1. International Men’s Day
14/11/2017 - Westminster Hall
1: crisis of fatherhood. I am hugely passionate about the work of the all-party group on fatherhood—I am one - Speech Link
2: talk about the importance of promoting active fatherhood to help to improve children’s life chances, particularly - Speech Link
2. Early Parenthood: Supporting Fathers
30/01/2019 - Westminster Hall
1: inquiry into the first 1,000 days of life by the Fatherhood Institute, which described support for fathers - Speech Link
2: support should include either creating a new fatherhood fund or making the maternity challenge fund a - Speech Link
3: talk about promoting the importance of active fatherhood in a child’s life. Policy 8 says:“Maternity - Speech Link
3. Fathers in the Family
01/03/2017 - Westminster Hall
1: 2016, highlighting the positive message about fatherhood and the importance of dads in child development - Speech Link
2: back on this and suggest any favouritism—but fatherhood and parenthood is clearly not a single event; - Speech Link
3: a month old and one who is two. I agree that fatherhood is a lifelong commitment. Fathers are part of - Speech Link
4. Apprenticeships: Gender Segregation
11/03/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: overrepresented by women. We have also been funding the Fatherhood Institute to ensure that that happens. Further - Speech Link
5. Flexible Working
16/07/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: Then Screwed, the Young Women’s Trust and the Fatherhood Institute, for better access to flexible working - Speech Link
5 Current APPG Officers
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Contact Details
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Mr David Lammy MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 0767.
Email: lammyd@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Owen Thomas, Future Men, 34 Grosvenor Gardens, SW1W 0DH
Email: o.thomas@futuremen.org
Benefits in Kind
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Working with Men
Secretariat From : 01/01/2016 To : 31/12/2016
£1,501
1 Jan 2015
Working with Men
Secretariat From : 01/01/2015 To : 31/12/2015
£1,501
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Fatherhood APPG
Former APPG Officers
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David Linden
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Glasgow East
Joined: 6th June 2018Departed: 19th June 2019
Belgium , Fairs and Showgrounds , Faith and Society , Food and Drink , Greenland , Hospitality and Tourism , Luxembourg , Nutrition for Growth , Parkrun , Premature and Sick Babies , Social Media , Tunisia
Commercial Sexual Exploitation , Conception to Age Two - First 1001 Days , Faith and Society , International Freedom of Religion or Belief , North Korea , Pakistani Minorities , Pro-Life , Recovery from Addictions , Religious Education , Twelve Steps Recovery Programme for Addiction
Jim Shannon
Secretary
Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford
Joined: 6th June 2018Departed: 19th June 2019
Access to Medicines and Medical Devices , Adult Social Care , Alevis , Bahá'í Faith , Beer , Blood Cancer , Carbon Monoxide , Cerebral Palsy , Christianity in the Holy Land , Cleaning and Hygiene , Coastal Communities , Dairy , Diabetes , Disability , Eggs, Pigs and Poultry , Energy Studies , Equitable Life Policyholders , Eye Health and Visual Impairment , Farming , Health in all Policies , Healthy Homes and Buildings , Heart Valve Disease , Hong Kong , International Freedom of Religion or Belief , Malawi , Marine Energy , Mentoring , Muscular Dystrophy , Obesity , Pakistani Minorities , Pancreatic Cancer , Pigeon Racing , Pro-Life , Professional Sales , Respiratory Health , Shooting and Conservation , Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention , Terminal Illness , Veterans , Vulnerable Groups to Pandemics , Wood Panel Industry
Michael Tomlinson
Treasurer
Conservative - Mid Dorset and North Poole
Joined: 6th June 2018Departed: 19th June 2019
David Burrowes
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Enfield, Southgate
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 2nd May 2017
Lord Field of Birkenhead
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 2nd May 2017
Baroness Chapman of Darlington
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 21st July 2016Departed: 2nd May 2017
Chris Leslie
Secretary
The Independent Group for Change - Former Member for Nottingham East
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 2nd May 2017