UK 24th out of 29 European nations for child well being

This briefing draws on the results of a new league table of child wellbeing in European countries. Produced by researchers from the University of York, the league table covers 29 European countries (EU 27 countries plus Norway and Iceland). It includes 43 separate indicators, summarised in seven domains of child wellbeing.The Netherlands comes top of the table of overall child wellbeing, followed by Norway and Sweden. The UK came 24th, well below countries of similar affluence. Only Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania and Malta do worse. The data were collected in 2006.