The Children’s Society Launches 2024 Good Childhood Report

The Children’s Society is passionate about listening to youth voice, and the #GoodChildhoodReport is ALL youth voice. The voices of thousands of young people. They call for action and they call for change.   This report is an invaluable resource to amplify the voices of children and young people so that those with the power to change that take action.

Intro

This year’s report provides crucial insight into children’s wellbeing, presenting the latest trends in children’s subjective wellbeing, exploring how families fared with the current economic challenges facing the UK, and comparing the wellbeing of 15-year-olds in the UK with that of their peers across Europe.

Alongside our own annual household survey (surveying 10- to 17-year-olds in the UK in 2024) and analysis of the latest Understanding Society data (surveying 10- to 15-year-olds in the UK, 2021/22), this year’s report also features analysis of PISA data (2022), providing international comparative insight on the subjective wellbeing of 15-year-olds.

Links to Report, Summaries and Policy Briefing:

Please click below to find the full report, summary and youth summary, along with our policy briefing roadmap, sharing how we seek to change childhood experience to a more positive one:

The Good Childhood Report | The Children’s Society (childrenssociety.org.uk)

A Roadmap to a Good Childhood

Now is the opportune moment for change.

Off the back of the concerning findings presented in The Good Childhood Report this year, we are publishing a policy briefing to go alongside the full research report, the summary report and the youth summary.

This policy briefing sets out a national roadmap to a good childhood. This roadmap clearly outlines the steps that the Government need to take to overturn the decline in children’s wellbeing. The roadmap calls for the Government to:

• Prevent crisis
• Prioritise children’s wellbeing
• End child poverty
• Improve girls’ wellbeing
• Reform the school experience
• Let children play.

Throughout the year, we will speak up and speak out, with children and young people, so that their wellbeing is at the top of the political agenda