Celebrating our joint work with the What Works Centre for Wellbeing
The What Works Centre for Wellbeing closed on 30th April 2024. The centre focussed on accelerating research on wellbeing and democratising access to wellbeing evidence.
Working together
We worked in close collaboration with the What Works Centre for Wellbeing, undertaking joint projects with the centre, and a number of reports and blogs produced by or with researchers from The Children’s Society were published by the What Works Centre for Wellbeing.
We are hosting this webpage containing all of our most recent and key historical publications in celebration of our relationship and the centre’s important work on children and young people's wellbeing. These can also be found on the What Works Centre for Wellbeing website.
Most recently, the What Works Centre published The Children’s Society’s discussion paper on measuring Eudaimonic wellbeing among children and young people in the UK.
Joint publications
Joint publications
In 2021, The Children’s Society and the What Works Centre completed a joint review of the evidence on wellbeing measures for children and young people, resulting in the following key publications:
- Children and young people's subjective wellbeing: how to measure it more consistently?
- Children's subjective wellbeing measures - February 2021.
- Metrics Bank.
- Measuring children and young people's subjective wellbeing - conceptual framework.
- Measuring children and young people's subjective wellbeing - measures bank user guide.
GCR
The What Works Centre for Wellbeing published a number of blogs about our Good Childhood Report:
- Children's wellbeing in the UK 2023.
- Children's wellbeing in the UK 2022.
- Children's wellbeing in the UK since 1995 - what's changed?
- Explaining gender patterns in children's wellbeing.
- Wellbeing of children in the UK: influential factors and fears about the future.
They also published findings from our annual household survey:
- Exploring happiness with life online among children in the UK.
- Life on hold: children's wellbeing in lockdown.
- Understanding the links between children’s mental health and socio-economic status.
We would like to thank the What Works Centre for Wellbeing for generously gifting The Children’s Society a financial donation from their closing resources, in support of our Good Childhood work.
Continuing to campaign
We will continue to fight for the lives and futures of children and young people, from lifting families out of poverty to supporting teenagers with their emotional wellbeing and mental health.
