Including Fathers and Men in Newcastle:

Making Change Happen

Sue MillerLead Specialist Practitioner: Family Support and Parenting Commissioner Newcastle

What’s the goal?

Dads and male carers will be as integrated and visible as mums and female carers in the service

developments and activities of Children’s Centres, Extended schools and all partner organisations in

your area.

StrategicSenior

Leadership Team

ManagerialService Managers

Frontline and CommunityPractitioners and Members of

Community

Policycontext

Legalframework

Making Change Happen from ‘Supporting Parents: Improving Outcomes for Children, Families and Communities’ by Sue Miller (2010)

Workstream 1: Service delivery

Workstream 2: Workforce reform and training

Workstream 3: Performance management

Workstream 1: Service delivery

•Establish good practice examples•Don’t oversell the model•Capture the story

Workstream 2: Workforce reform and training

•Develop the staff•Address warning signs•Promote positive images

Workstream 3: Performance management

•Collect data•Use this developmentally and for deployment•Invite challenge

Leadership: The Roseto Mystery

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are

Malcolm Gladwell: The Outliers (2008)