 |  | | | Fathers and flexible working | 05 Apr 2004 | | |
It's estimated that British Dads do approximately one third of all childcare but don't get the flexibility they need at work to help them do more. Tomorrow it's a year since legislation which gives the right to any parent with a child under six or a child with disabilities under 18 to request flexible working hours.
This could apply to 3.8 million workers but new research shows that although a third of mothers have requested it, just ten per cent of fathers have asked for more flexible working.
This will be one of the items under discussion at Europe's largest conference on the subject of fatherhood taking place this morning.
John Quinn a father of two children aged six and three is a lorry driver in Paisley who works for a leading building company. When Marie Devine went to visit him, and his wife Elaine, he told her how he first heard about the right to ask for flexible working.
To discuss John's experience, Sheila is joined by Richard Wilson, Business Policy Executive at the Institute of Directors, Sarah Jackson is Chief Executive of Working Families and Duncan Fisher, the Director of Fathers Direct who are organising the conference which is taking place this morning.
And the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Patricia Hewitt, the key note speaker at the conference, also talks with Sheila about the issues.
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