How happy are children with their current lives?: Segmentation analysis

Approach to creating groups

Resulting groups with similar combinations

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By local authority

Overall rates in an LA

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By Parliamentary Constituency

Note: Map below presents unweighted percentages. Constituencies with less than 50 children responding to the survey have been greyed out in the map below.

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Source: ONS postcode lookup file

Source: MHCLG Indices of mulitple deprivation 2019

Source: MHCLG Indices of mulitple deprivation 2019

Source: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ data up to 11/05/2021

Source: CCO estimates of missed face to face learning to December 2020

Source: NHS National Child Measurement Programme statistics 2020

Source: Police.uk recorded crime open data 2020/21

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Children with Special Educational Needs (SEN)

Children with SEN defined as those receiving support from a teaching assistant/SENCO, those enrolled in a special school or those completing the easy read version of the questionnaires

Children living with relatives other than their parents (in kinship care)

Children in kinship care defined as those living with relatives other than their parents

Children in care or with a social worker

Children with a social worker defined as those reporting receiving support from a social worker. Those in care defined by those reporting living with foster parents, in a children’s home (secure and non-secure) or those in independent or semi-independent accommodation supported by the local council

Children with a social worker only

Children in care only

Children receiving mental health support

Children currently receiving mental health support

Children receiving mental health support are defined as those reporting receiving support from a counsellor therapist or other health care worker and those reporting living in a mental health hospital

Children in mental health hospitals

Children in mental health hospitals defined as those reporting living in a mental health hospital

Young carers

Young carers defined as children reporting receiving support from a young carers’ project