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1. The Good Childhood The Good Childhood Shaping the Future Evidence from children and young people With children, for children, with you

2. UNICEF Report Card 7

3. media coverage Media coverage Source: MORI 2008 With children, for children, with you

4. violence and crime Trends in percentage of 11-16 year-olds self-reported offending: MORI 2006

5. violence and crime Trends in disposals of 11-16 year-olds : YJB 2008

6. education and parenting

7. accident

8. accident

9. abuse and neglect 5 year period 1971-75 5 year period 2000-05 Childhood deaths from maltreatment, abuse, homicide Source: Innocenti Report Card 5, 2003

10. abuse and neglect Risk: by age Risk: by household income

11. lifestyle

12. lifestyle

13. Dominant trends dominant trends: demographic With children, for children, with you

14. dominant trends: family

15. dominant trends: household Dominant trends Distribution of families by household Source ONS 2008 With children, for children, with you

16. Dominant trends dominant trends: poverty With children, for children, with you

17. dominant trends: disadvatage

18. dominant trends: diversity Families with dependent children as a total of all families by ethnic group (ONS 2001)

19. the task • The task of The Good Childhood Inquiry panel was to produce an evidence-based report that can help to improve the lives of children and young people in the UK today. It considered: • What are conditions for a good childhood? • What obstacles exist to those conditions today? • What changes could be made which on the basis of evidence would be likely to improve things? • These may be changes in the behaviour of parents, teachers, government, voluntary sector or faith organisations, or in society at large. • The panels findings were published on 5th February 2009 inA Good Childhood: Searching for Values in a Competitive Age With children, for children, with you

20. the panel Patron The Right Revd Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury Chair Professor Judith Dunn, Professor of Developmental Psychology Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London Panel Members Professor Sir Albert Aynsley-Green, Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, Shami Chakrabarti, Jim Davis, Professor Philip Graham, Professor Kathleen Kiernan, Professor Lord Richard Layard, Dr Barbara Maughan, Dr Stephen Scott, Bishop Tim Stevens, Professor Kathy Sylva With children, for children, with you

21. how? Call for evidence ‘my life’ postcards and microsite www.mylife.uk.com Oral evidence sessions at inquiry panel meetings Partnership with CBBC Newsround 60 focus groups with children and young people nationwide National survey (The Children’s Society and the University of York) With children, for children, with you

22. What children and young people told us With children, for children, with you

23. Love • ‘Love and care by the people they want to love and care for them & an easy life’ • Support • ‘Someone to talk to and someone to lisene’ Relationships • Fairness • ‘Having choices, being treated fairly. Children getting heard’ • Respect • ‘being treated right by adults…’

24. Love ‘a home and freinds that love you and care about you’ Support ‘having family and friends to turn to if you are upset’ Relationships LOVE support fairness respect Fairness ‘parents allowing them to do stuff with there friends, but saying that, being strict as well’ • Respect • ‘understanding parents, friends, people to speak to when in trouble, respect’

25. Lack of love and care ‘having a nasty mum or dad. Having a really poor family’ Bullying ‘Being bullied an scared of life, to have nowhere to go where you feel safe, to not have anyone who understands them or they can talk to’ Relationships LOVE support fairness respect Peer pressure ‘If there friends are bad they might be forced to do something they don’t want to just to impress their friends’ Lack of respect ‘teachers are nobheads with no respect. They don’t lisen’.

26. School ‘‘support from teachers who believe you can do well’ ‘I play with my friends at school’ Home ‘A secure and safe home with family and friends’ Environment Money Having close friens, a loving family, a nice home and enough money.. Local area ‘places to have fun and places to socialise’ Church ‘nice vicer, nice people’

27. Money ‘there’s nowhere safe to go if you got no money’ Home ‘Not having nowhere to go and then being moaned at’. School ‘A rubbish school that doesn’t care’ Environment Money Home School Church Local area/outdoors National and local Local area ‘‘Adults don’t want you to play there – they are being unsociable to us’ Church ‘‘we should be aloud to do more things and not just sit there. Societal attitudes ‘Young people get blaimed for Britains ‘rising crime’ making people scared of us’

28. Health – physical/mental/emotional ‘less stress, less pressure, social life’ Lifestyle – leisure and fun Enough free time to relax or do stuff with your mates Values and attitudes ‘live life as if its your last day and get on with others’ Learning and growing ‘growing up and learning and taking responsibility Self Perceptions of the future ‘get good grades, get a good job and get money’

29. Within the family ‘a secure and safe atmosphere with a family that care about you’ Within friendships ‘stop spitful frends and bullies’ Safety Freedom In school ‘a school without bullies and chavs outside In the local area ‘a good and safe environment, a place to go and play Societal attitudes ‘To be able to socialise and not be discriminated against just because we are young. We all aren not thugs and vandals’

30. cross-cutting themes • The quality of children’s relationship with others • Love • ‘Love and care by the people they want to love and care for them & an easy life’ • Support • ‘Someone to talk to and someone to lisene’ • Fairness • ‘Having choices, being treated fairly. Children getting heard’ • Respect • ‘understanding parents, people to speak to when in trouble, respect’ With children, for children, with you

31. cross-cutting themes cross-cutting themes • Safety, security and protection Within the family ‘a secure and safe atmosphere with a family that care about you’ Within friendships ‘being bullied and scared of life and have nowehere to go and feel safe’ Within the their local communities ‘not having to fear druggies drunks gangs and kiddie fiddlers’ With children, for children, with you

32. cross-cutting themes cross-cutting themes • Freedom In a general sense ‘let the enjoy their lives and make their own decisions, let them make their own mistakes so they can learn from them’ Being free from certain restrictions within the family or in society ‘to be able to go out with mates’ ‘age restrictions and other young people stopping free will’ Freedom from pressure ‘too much pressure, not enough free time’ A recognition that there is a need for limits to freedom ‘be able to be free and still have good discipline and feel safe and secure.’ With children, for children, with you

33. cross-cutting themes ‘people think we are all the same e.g. a teenager might have been rude to someone, elderly, person etc. So they think we are all like that and then be rude to other teenagers’ ‘Equality and respect from adults e.g. freedom to go out with our friends’ ‘Give them opertunitys and things to do’ ‘you can be free in the choices we make and still have have good discipline and feel safe and secure’ ‘Less stress, more well respected, a social life’ ‘Some parents are soo overprotective because they stereo type the world and that effects their children because they won’t be aloud to do things because parents are shit scared paranoid people’