Research by The Children’s Society and the University of York identified 10 items that children feel they need to experience a normal life. The report also concluded that children lacking five or more of these items were five times more likely to be unhappy than their peers.
The report Missing Out sought to build a greater understanding of what it means to be deprived from a child’s perspective. The list of 10 items was decided upon with focus groups of children, then a poll of 5,500 eight- to 15-year-olds then asked whether a lack of any of the items affected children’s wellbeing.
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