Child and Wellbeing Index 2009

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Brief Description

Child well-being is generally represented by how children are doing in a number of different domains of their life.

Detailed Information

There are no comprehensive national sources of data on other domains of well-being that could have been included - subjective well-being, relations with family and friends, civic participation, behaviour and risks for children (except for data on accidents). Such data can only be derived from surveys, which are not large enough to generate results reliable at local authority level and below. There are also no national, comprehensive data on child abuse and neglect, or other groups of children in special circumstances (travellers' children, asylum seekers' and refugees' children and children of new migrants). The small numbers of these children make it difficult to undertake statistically robust analysis at small area level. Nevertheless this index covers the major domains of a child's life that have an impact on child well-being and that are available for LSOAs in England. The Index has been constructed by the Social Disadvantage Research Centre at the University of Oxford and the Social Policy Research Unit at the University of York.