'Think Fathers' was launched by children's minister Beverly Hughes lastweek at a Family and Parenting Institute conference in London.
The six-month campaign will be run by the Fatherhood Institute and theDCSF to bring together employers, children's services, childcarepractitioners and voluntary organisations and improve the way they workwith fathers and to provide them with better support.
Ms Hughes told the conference, 'The challenge is to transform the wayfathers are treated by public services. The Think Fathers campaign is afantastic start, and over the coming months I am looking forward tobuilding up a coalition who can help us drive this forward, includingGovernment, the Fatherhood Institute, practitioners and children'sservices.'
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