The academy, funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, has been criticised by the Fatherhood Institute, which is responsible for delivering the DCSF's Think Fathers campaign.
The findings come from a study, Fathers and Parenting Interventions: What Works?, due to be published by the institute later this month. It examines the evidence for engagement of fathers in parent education and training. Study author Adrienne Burgess said: "I was shocked to discover the main parenting programmes being pushed by the National Academy of Parenting Practitioners have not been evaluated for their effectiveness with fathers."
Where there was evidence of including fathers, she added, "the methodology was dreadful".
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