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The home of father-friendly news, thoughts and creative insights from FNS and our guest bloggers. Let us know what you think – and if you’ve got an idea for a blog post you’d like to write for us, get in touch with FNS!

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Dads' Life out of Lockdown Survey 2021

Our 2021 dads' survey shows why we must challenge the structures that stop dads engaging meaningfully with their children.

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Help Us to Change Employment Policy for Dads

"I feel pressure from work, pressure from my partner to be more involved which conflicts with my work, pressure to help her more, pressure from myself to be a good...

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Dads' Mental Health and Covid Recovery

This week started with International Fathers’ Mental Health Day, and Fathers Network Scotland is celebrating the announcement of a new initiative to support men at risk of becoming socially isolated...

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Movember and Fathers Network Scotland team up to co-develop new men’s mental health initiative

Men at risk of becoming socially isolated following the global pandemic will be able to access new ways of  receiving support for their mental health, thanks to Movember.  The global men’s...

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Dads' Survey 2021

Our 2021 dads' survey shows why we must challenge the structures that stop dads engaging meaningfully with their children.

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An Exciting New Direction For FNS

We are excited to announce that you will be seeing a whole lot more of two faces, who are very familiar to the whole Fathers Network Scotland community. Our current...

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Talking When We Least Feel Like It

At 4pm yesterday I had scheduled in a Zoom chat with my family down south. It had been a shocker of a day. The last thing I felt like doing was...

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Call to Action

Over the past two years Fathers Network Scotland's main focus has been on dads' mental health, and how services can better support them. At a time of heartbreakingly high levels of male suicide...

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National Work Life Week

Without the option to work flexibly, I would not be writing this blog. I would have had to give up on a vocation after years of learning and grafting, in...

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2020 Survey Results

Each year Fathers Network Scotland asks families in Scotland about how they're doing. During 2020 we have been living through interesting and often challenging times. Therefore this time, our anonymous survey has captured a snapshot of what life has been like for dads during lockdown.

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