Fathers can be active participants in the life of children's centres when the right initiatives succeed in engaging them. This is certainly proving to be the case in Rochdale, Lancashire, where a number of borough-wide events have involved local children's centres working collaboratively to organise local events with strong father appeal.
Nicola Carroll, centre leader at Sandbrook Children's Centre, helped to organise a football tournament that took place last summer and a follow-up Autumn Adventures Day. Since then, fathers have seemed far more interested in dropping into their local centres, whether for specific classes and activities, or just to meet other parents and stay and play with their children.
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