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Jo Todd

Jo Todd. Men’s Involvement in Children’s Lives Tuesday 31 st March 2009. respect. Respect’s progress…. Set up in 2000 Membership organisation Perpetrators of domestic violence Focus on programmes Promoting best practice / supporting members Influencing public policy

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  1. Jo Todd Men’s Involvement in Children’s Lives Tuesday 31st March 2009 respect

  2. Respect’s progress… • Set up in 2000 • Membership organisation • Perpetrators of domestic violence • Focus on programmes • Promoting best practice / supporting members • Influencing public policy • 2004 Respect Phoneline – perpetrators

  3. Respect diversifying… • 2006 Men’s Advice Line – male victims • 2008 Dads’ Space – virtual contact centre – focus on fathers • Developing work with young people • Accreditation • Research • Men and masculinities

  4. Let’s talk about men • Positive changes in men’s roles in society • Greater involvement in family life • Nurturing and care-giving as well as providing for and playing with children • Need for men to be a positive influence on children and young people – ‘role models’

  5. Let’s talk about men 2 • Men’s violence against women • Don’t panic! I don’t mean all men • And I don’t mean women aren’t violent • Men’s violence against women is a specific social phenomenon • Don’t be scared to name it / make it visible • Some men are a risk – to children and their mothers

  6. Men and children • Celebrate and promote the positive contribution that men make to children’s lives • Recognise and manage the risk that some men pose

  7. Political agenda • ‘Think Fathers’ campaign – DCSF • ‘Kids in the Middle’ – support for separating families – DCSF • ‘Violence Against Women’ strategy – Home Office

  8. Men and children 2 • Real people’s lives are messy • Rarely as simple as 100% positive vs 100% negative • We need to find solutions that encourage positive fathering while ensuring women and children’s safety isn’t overlooked

  9. Solutions… • Perpetrator programmes need to focus more on positive fathering post domestic violence • Fathering programmes need to focus more on safety and risk management • Learning and sharing between the two sectors • Dads’ Space and services like it

  10. Solutions… • Giving men the tools to name VAW / talk about it • Encouraging individual men to intervene • Men’s coordinated action • Healthy relationships / sex education with boys and young men • Listening to the needs of children and young people

  11. So in children’s lives, men can be: • The Problem • The Solution The challenge for us all is to be able to hold both of these realities at once… and not fear that acknowledging one negates the other

  12. 1st Floor, Downstream Building 1 London Bridge London SE1 9BG T: 020 7022 1801 F: 020 7022 1806 E: info@respect.uk.net W: www.respect.uk.net respect

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