As part of its Dad Challenge, the early years charity is providing a form for early years services to record the number of mothers and fathers dropping off and collecting their children from each session.
It also wants them to note when parents stay for all or part of a session and briefly state why they stayed.
The move comes after the organisation found children and parents would like to see fathers become more involved in early years settings.
Tim Kahn, inclusion officer at the Pre-school Learning Alliance, said services had been "slow to change to involve fathers", despite an increasing number of government policies to achieve this.
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