The UK's children are facing a happiness recession compared to their European counterparts, a leading charity has warned, after its analysis found lower life satisfaction among young people in Britain.
That includes the most recent Programme for International Student Assessment survey for 2022, which showed that on average a quarter of 15-year-olds in the UK had low life satisfaction ranking bottom of 27 countries and well above the European average of 17 per cent.
Those findings suggest that improving children's wellbeing should be an even bigger priority here than elsewhere across Europe, the charity said.
Within the UK, the charity pointed to research suggesting a large gap in life satisfaction between the 25 per cent most advantaged and most disadvantaged 15-year-olds, which it said showed that socio-economic inequalities also continue to be an important worry in this country.
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