About Well-being
Our ground-breaking report, Understanding Children’s Well-Being is the first comprehensive exploration of well-being from a child's perspective in this country. During a two-year research programme, we asked over 7,000 children, aged from 10-15 years old, what determines their life satisfaction in a wide range of aspects of their lives. Key findings include:
- Family conflict has far more influence on children’s well-being than family structure
- Children are least happy with their appearance and confidence
- A significant proportion of young people are unhappy with the way they are treated by adults; both in their local community, in the media and by government
- As young people get older, they tend to become less happy with their lives
- Girls are significantly less happy than boys with aspects of their lives such as appearance, confidence and school work
Understanding Children's Well-being follows the 2009 publication of A Good Childhood - Searching for Values in a Competitive Age, a report commissioned by The Children’s Society as the UK's first independent inquiry into what makes for a good childhood.
This new work, led by our Director of Research, Gywther Rees, and developed in collaboration with Professor Jonathan Bradshaw at the University of York, explores the foundations of children’s well-being and is an important benchmark for the well-being of children and young people in England today.
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