PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Pupils: Mental Health (20 October 2020)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the (a) accuracy of data and (b) criteria for measuring children’s wellbeing.

Asked by:
Fleur Anderson (Labour)

Answer

The Government continues to expand data and information on children and young people’s wellbeing.

The Department for Education recently published the second annual ‘State of the Nation: Children and Young People’s Wellbeing’ report. It is intended to help Government, children and young people’s services, schools, parents, and anyone interested in children and young people’s wellbeing to understand their experiences of the pandemic, the measures put in place to reduce the impact of the pandemic, and the broader effects on society.


Answered by:
Ms Nadine Dorries (Conservative)
3 November 2020

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