<p>Supporting Fathers </p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – in the Senedd at 3:02 pm on 28 June 2017.

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Photo of Mark Isherwood Mark Isherwood Conservative 3:02, 28 June 2017

Thank you. The 2016 UK annual fatherhood survey found that 25 per cent of dads said there wasn’t enough support to help them play a positive role in family life. In Wales, the Welsh dads survey, which has only just been published, found that although most fathers and father figures do not have problems with their care giving, two thirds still felt their role wasn’t valued equally with the other parent by authorities and society, and nearly 80 per cent think the Government, i.e. Welsh Government, should do more to help fathers. How do you respond to that, where the concerns primarily relate to the way systems seem to work in public sector bodies, rather than the intent of the people delivering those systems?