Fathers Voice
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A calm, practical place to send the dads you work with.

Fathers often arrive at the first meeting frightened, angry or silent. fathersvoice.org.uk helps them understand the process, stay focused on their child and engage constructively with you. It's free, needs no account, and stores nothing about them.

Who it's for

  • Fathers involved with children's social care at any stage, from referral to closure
  • Fathers making or responding to a child arrangements application
  • Fathers living with, or struggling with, an existing order
  • Separated fathers parenting from two homes, with or without a court case

What it encourages

  • Keeping the child, not the conflict, at the centre
  • Calm, written, factual communication
  • Attending, engaging and completing agreed actions
  • Getting legal advice at the right points

What it isn't

It isn't legal advice, it doesn't take sides against professionals or the other parent, and it doesn't assume allegations are false. Where risk or abuse is involved, it points fathers to legal advice and to support, including for men experiencing abuse. The content is based on Beyond the Referral, Family Court Roadmap and Parenting Apart, three practical guides drawn from lived experience and peer support.

Cards to hand out

Business-card size. The QR code opens a short "Start here" page. Print on card, cut along the guides, and keep a few in your bag or on reception.

See where the QR code goes →
Fathers Voice

Dealing with social services or the family court?

Free, practical help for dads, from lived experience and peer support.

fathersvoice.org.uk

Scan to start

Front
  • Three free practical guides, from lived experience and peer support
  • Social services, the family court and two homes
  • Ask questions in your own words, any time
  • Download each guide as a PDF

In danger: 999 · Struggling: NHS 111

ManKind: 0808 800 1170 · Men's Advice Line: 0808 801 0327

Not legal advice. England and Wales.

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Posters and leaflets

A ready-made A4 poster

For a waiting room, family centre or notice board. It has the QR code, what the site covers and urgent numbers.

Open the poster

Making your own?

Download the QR code for Word, Canva or a leaflet, or link to fathersvoice.org.uk/start