When Chris’s son joined Langtry Nursery in Kilburn, north London, three years ago, he was one of the dads who occasionally dropped his son off on his way to work or picked him up but didn’t stay around for long to chat. When practitioners spoke to him about his son, he was likely to defer to his wife and say, ‘Speak to his mum’, which was a common response from many male family members.
All that changed two years ago, when nursery head Aisha Ashanti introduced a fathers/male carers initiative. The project was shortlisted for the Nursery World 2019 Working with Parents Award.
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