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Lorna Durrani, The Well-Being of Children in the UK (Second Edition), Jonathan Bradshaw and Emese Mayhew (eds), London, Save the Children, 2005, pp. xiii + 369, ISNB 1 84187 101 X, £19.95, The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 36, Issue 5, July 2006, Pages 873–875, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcl074
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Bradshaw and Mayhew have produced, in this updated and expanded second edition of The Well-Being of Children in the UK, a unique collection of evidence on different aspects of children’s lives in the UK. The authors provide extensive data to support their contention that children’s welfare has improved over the past ten years, although not for all children and not in all aspects. Data on the twelve domains of child well-being—demography, child poverty, health, lifestyle, mental health, children’s time and space, child maltreatment, children in and leaving care, child care, children and crime, education, and housing—are subjected to a rigorous analysis in order to support their conclusion that while overall child well-being is improving in line with the wider society, there are some worrying downward trends. Despite being better off surviving more births, and doing better at school, large numbers of children still live in workless households, children’s use of public space is ever more restricted, and more children are being excluded from school.
