Goal: To transform practice in family services towards men
Funding: 34,000 (50,000 euros) from the Bernard van Lear Foundation in the Netherlands, plus income generated from conferences and seminars
Contact: Roger Olley, project manager, 0191 256 2444
"The press has given men a bad reputation," says Roger Olley, project manager of Fathers Plus. "All we get are high-profile, very nasty images of men."
However, his project, based at regional charity Children North East, is doing its best to counter these concerns. Fathers Plus has operated for seven years and deals with hundreds of men and children each year.
It works on the premise that fathers are important and not, as suggested recently when the laws for IVF treatment changed, that they are "no longer required".
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