Supporting fathers to engage with their children’s learning and education: an under‐developed aspect of the Parent Support Adviser pilot

Cullen, Stephen Michael; Cullen, Mairi Ann; Band, Susan; Davis, Liz; Lindsay, Geoff

doi:10.1080/01411921003786579

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“…Interview findings from 162 parent support professionals from 12 local authorities found that the ways in which fathers were approached about engagement had a direct effect on their involvement. In this study, Cullen et al . (2011) provide support for findings that visiting fathers at home, being persistent and consulting fathers as to what services they required were effective strategies in increasing father engagement (Ghate et al .…”

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Engaging fathers in child welfare services: a narrative review of recent research evidence

Maxwell

Scourfield

Featherstone

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Child & Family Social Work

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It is widely recognized as problematic that there are generally low levels of engagement with child welfare services from biological and social fathers. The result can be limited resources for children's care and potentially poor risk assessment and management. This paper reviews the published research from 2000 to 2010 about the barriers to and facilitators of better father engagement, as well as the very limited evidence on the effectiveness of work with maltreating fathers. There is relatively little known about what works in engaging men, but there are some promising indicators from family support and child protection practice contexts. These include early identification and early involvement of fathers; a proactive approach, including an insistence on men's involvement with services; and the use of practical activities. In the light of what is known about the characteristics of maltreating fathers, there is a logical fit with cognitive‐behavioural approaches. Although there is no direct evidence of the effectiveness of motivational interviewing in this context, its effectiveness in allied fields of practice would suggest that it may hold some promise for the initial engagement of fathers who pose a risk to children.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 73%

“…Despite the presence of multiple risk factors in these young men's lives, when asked, the young fathers did not perceive a need for parenting support or substance abuse counselling. Both Potter & Carpenter (2010) and Cullen et al . (2011) describe the need for ‘a hook’ to draw men into parenting services, with Weinman et al .…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 90%

Engaging fathers in child welfare services: a narrative review of recent research evidence

Maxwell

Scourfield

Featherstone

et al. 2012

Child & Family Social Work

136

128

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“…Pfitzner, Humphreys, & Hegarty, (2015) referred to the general adoption of a "gender-blind" approach where providers "often conflate parent with mother without understanding the gendered aspects of engagement" (p.9). Cullen et al, (2011) ascribed the failure of UK, school-based parent support advisors to engage fathers, to just such an omission. Ghate, Shaw, & Hazel, (2000) argued that 'a genderdifferentiated' strategy is needed where providers recognise and address potential differences between mothers and fathers in terms of service needs and preferences for service support.…”

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‘It’s the most important thing – I mean, the schooling’: father involvement in the education of children with autism

Potter

2016

European Journal of Special Needs Education

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Father involvement in education has been shown to result in a range of positive outcomes for typically developing children. However, the nature of paternal involvement in the education of children with disabilities and especially autism has been under-researched and is little understood. This study aimed to explore the nature of the involvement of 25 UK fathers in the education and their children with autism, aged up to 19 years through the use of semi-structured interviews. Findings showed that fathers were highly engaged both directly and indirectly across several dimensions of their children's education and schooling.Key areas of indirect engagement were involvement in administrative processes necessary for securing an appropriate educational placement; facilitating daily access to school and general support of children's progress through attendance at school-based meetings and events. Direct support for learning occurred through homework assistance and working on school-related goals. Findings are discussed in relation to diversity and generative models of fatherhood.Implications for greater father inclusion in the education of children with autism are explored with reference to a gender-differentiated approach.

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“…Details of the study are available in two interim and one final report (Lindsay et al ., , , ), with particular discussion relating to the issue of the PSA role and the engagement of fathers to be found in Cullen et al . (). The evidence base for this article was formed by data gathered from 12 case‐study LAs selected from the 20 LAs involved in the PSA pilot.…”

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“…The PSA pilot was evaluated by the Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research, the University of Warwick. Details of the study are available in two interim and one final report (Lindsay et al, 2007(Lindsay et al, , 2008(Lindsay et al, , 2009, with particular discussion relating to the issue of the PSA role and the engagement of fathers to be found in Cullen et al (2011). The evidence base for this article was formed by data gathered from 12 case-study LAs selected from the 20 LAs involved in the PSA pilot.…”

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‘I'm just there to ease the burden’: the parent support adviser role in English schools and the question of emotional labour

Cullen

Lindsay

2013

British Educational Res J

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In 2005, the Department for Education and Skills announced a £40 million investment in a new school support worker role, the parent support adviser (PSA), for 20 English local authorities. A pilot project ran from 2006–2008 and resulted in the establishment of 717 PSAs in 1167 schools. The national evaluation of the project forms the evidential basis of this paper, with interviews conducted with 69 PSAs, 85 PSA line managers and 105 parents and a database recording casework with nearly 21,000 parents. This paper focuses on the nature of the PSA role as the first centrally funded parent support role in English schools. The theoretical framework provided by the concept of ‘emotional labour’ and the development of the concept represented by the 4Ps typology provides the conceptual structure. This paper argues that although the characteristics of the PSA role appear to place it within the category of work requiring emotional labour, PSAs and parents regard that aspect of the role in a positive light. For the PSAs there was little evidence that emotional labour necessary for the role of PSA led to dissonance between role and worker or alienation from the product of PSA labour.

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Supporting fathers to engage with their children’s learning and education: an under‐developed aspect of the Parent Support Adviser pilot

Cited by 13 publications

References 16 publications

Engaging fathers in child welfare services: a narrative review of recent research evidence

Engaging fathers in child welfare services: a narrative review of recent research evidence

‘It’s the most important thing – I mean, the schooling’: father involvement in the education of children with autism

‘I'm just there to ease the burden’: the parent support adviser role in English schools and the question of emotional labour

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