measuring wellbeing

As part of a new series of blogs that focus on a range of wellbeing measurement tools from...

This week’s guest blog is from Larissa Pople, Senior Researcher at The Children’s Society, on their latest Good Childhood Report, published this week. It is their annual digest of the latest trends, statistics and findings relating to children’s self-reported wellbeing in the UK. Here she pulls out some key findings on the differences in the wellbeing and mental health of boy and girls identified in the report.

In this week’s guest blog Paul Frijters, co-director with Richard Layard of the CEP-LSE wellbeing group, responds to last month’s blog from Dan Corry, which suggested that adding a price tag to wellbeing risks overselling and misunderstanding its true value.

As part of our Measuring Wellbeing series, we give space to thought leaders from different sectors to share insights, new perspectives and fresh ideas on how we understand, measure and improve wellbeing. In today’s guest blog from our Board member Dan Corry, CEO of New Philanthropy Capital, questions whether adding a price tag to wellbeing risks overselling and misunderstanding its true value.