Press Release

 

Conservative MP for Northampton South speaks to dads at annual conference near Coventry

 

• Brian Binley addresses Families Need Fathers delegates at its annual Volunteers’ Conference

 

• Importance of Shared Parenting affirmed by Conservative MP

 

Families Need Fathers annual volunteers’conference was held at the Nettle Hill Conference Centre outside Coventry last weekend. Brian Binley, Conservative MP for Northampton South, spoke to the group, and detailed the problems that many non-resident parents, especially fathers, experience after separation and divorce when it comes to seeing their children regularly.

 

John Baker (Chair), Jon Davies (CEO), Brian Binley (Conservative MP)

 

Mr Binley showed sympathetic appreciation of the issues Families Need Fathers campaign for, voicing the imbalance in the allocation of Housing and CSA payments to separated parents that he has heard from constituents at his surgeries. He admitted that governments had formerly given insufficient consideration to these matters, going on to detail what should be done and how society needs to rethink relationships which involve children, towards a culture of Shared Parenting.

 

Formed in 1974, the self-help charity Families Need Fathers is recognised as the most knowledgeable representative of parents living apart from their children, and provides support and information to separated and divorced parents, as well as extended family and friends. FNF believe that every child has the right to a relationship with both parents during and after family breakdown.

 

The Northampton Branch meets on the first Monday of each month. For details of venue contact Sue Secker via the details below.

 

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