Key findings from The Children’s Society’s annual household survey 2024
- In 2024, 10- to 17-year-olds were, on average, most happy with their family (out of the 10 aspects of life asked about in our Good Childhood Index). More children and young people (14.3%) were unhappy with school than with the nine other areas of life they were asked about (that is, they scored below the midpoint on the measure of happiness with school).
- More children and young people said they were worried about rising prices, compared with the other eight societal issues they were asked about. Two in five (41%) children and young people were ‘very’ or ‘quite’ worried about this issue.
- 23% of parents and carers said that they had found it ‘quite’ or ‘very’ difficult to manage financially between January and March 2024, which indicates that their households were in financial strain.
- One in six (17%) children and young people living in households in financial strain had low life satisfaction. For children and young people living in households not in financial strain, this was just under one in ten (9%).
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