This report examines the financial pressures families face during school holidays and sets out how government policy can go further to ensure all children have access to food, activities and support—both during term time and beyond.

This report presents evidence from The Children’s Society’s Good Childhood research programme on key trends and themes in children and young people’s subjective wellbeing.

This report highlights associations between educational transitions (at key stages) and children and young people's subjective wellbeing.

We are proud to announce a new national charity partnership with KIA.

Our Good Childhood Report 2025, shows the latest trends in children's wellbeing.

This report explores young people’s risk-taking in adolescence, based on recent research and a survey we conducted. It highlights parents' views on risk, its impact on well-being, and whether they talk to their children about it—plus what might hold them back.

Our Good Childhood Report 2024, shows the latest trends in children's wellbeing.

We have now reviewed the manifestos from the three main parliamentary parties for England — The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

To mark mental health awareness week, BBC Children in Need, Health Foundation and Impact on Urban Health have presented £1 million to The Children’s Society as the beaming winners of the A Million & Me Award.

In this report we examine the views of schoolteachers and school leaders on national children’s wellbeing measurement in schools.