Well-being

The Good Childhood Report 2012

The Good Childhood Report 2012 reveals that half a million children across the UK are unhappy with their lives.

The Good Childhood Report 2012: Full report and Research summary 

It unveils six key priorities needed for a happy childhood, after interviewing more than 30,000 children aged eight to 16. 

Our well-being programme

The Children's Society's well-being research programme was initiated in 2005 to fill a gap in research regarding young people's own views of well-being. It has a positive focus, on well-being in the present rather than 'well-becoming'.

The programme aims to:

• develop a better understanding of the concept of well-being as it relates to young people, taking full account of the perspectives of young people themselves
• establish self-report measures of young people’s well-being and use these to identify the reasons for variations in well-being and to monitor changes in well-being over time.