Respect
Challenge ideas without attacking people
No harassment, threats, humiliation, discriminatory abuse, intimidation or deliberate provocation.
Community standards & safeguarding
Support should feel
safe, respectful and clear.
Strong Dad is built around honest conversation, but honesty does not mean anything goes. These standards set the tone for community spaces and planned online check-ins.
The basic standard
Respect people. Protect privacy. Know the limits of peer support.
People may arrive carrying stress, isolation, separation, bereavement, relationship pressure or mental-health concerns. The aim is to make it easier to speak — not to create another place where people are attacked, judged or pushed into sharing more than they want to.
Privacy
Do not export somebody else’s story
No recording, screenshots or sharing personal stories from private Strong Dad spaces without clear permission.
Children
Keep children out of adult conflict
Avoid names, photos, schools or other details that unnecessarily identify children or drag them into disputes between adults.
Separation
Support the dad, not a legal campaign
Dads can talk about how separation affects them. Strong Dad spaces are not for building allegations, targeting an ex-partner or seeking court strategy.
Advice
Share experience without pretending to be a professional
Participants should not diagnose, prescribe treatment, promise legal outcomes or present personal experience as professional instruction.
Choice
No pressure to disclose
Nobody should be pushed to reveal trauma, health information, family details or anything they are not comfortable sharing.
Peer-support boundaries
What Strong Dad can and cannot do.
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Can: listen, create peer connection, share general information, encourage constructive fatherhood and signpost appropriate services.
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Cannot: provide emergency response, therapy, diagnosis, legal representation, family-court case strategy or guarantees about outcomes.
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Can: moderate community spaces and remove content or participants when behaviour undermines safety or the purpose of the project.
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Cannot: guarantee that every participant in a peer space will keep information confidential, even though privacy is an explicit community expectation.
If someone is at immediate risk
Strong Dad messages and planned check-ins are not monitored as an emergency service.
Immediate danger: call 999 or go to A&E.
Urgent mental-health help in England: call NHS 111.
Samaritans: 116 123, free day or night.
Urgent mental-health help in England: call NHS 111.
Samaritans: 116 123, free day or night.
A peer conversation should never delay someone from getting urgent or professional help.
See urgent support informationModeration
What happens if standards are ignored?
Where practical, a minor issue may be addressed with a reminder or boundary. Serious or repeated behaviour can lead to removal from a session, group or future activity. Threats, harassment, discriminatory abuse, deliberate privacy breaches or behaviour that creates a clear safety concern may lead to immediate removal.
The purpose is not to police normal disagreement. It is to protect a community where dads can speak without the space becoming hostile, exploitative or unsafe.
Safeguarding approach
The Strong Dad Project is a developing peer community rather than a statutory safeguarding service. If information suggests somebody may be in immediate danger or urgent professional help is needed, the priority is to encourage contact with appropriate emergency or professional services. The project will not promise secrecy where doing so would be irresponsible or unlawful.
If future activity involves children or young people
The planned online dad check-ins are for adults aged 18+. If The Strong Dad Project later develops activities that directly involve children or young people, this page will not be treated as sufficient on its own. Appropriate safeguarding procedures, clear reporting routes, risk assessment, consent arrangements and role-appropriate safer-recruitment checks would need to be established before that activity begins.
Last updated: 3 October 2026.