The findings have emerged in the Children’s Society’s annual Good Childhood Report, which found this year that almost half of young people are worried about rising prices.
Concern around increasing prices has pushed last year’s top worry, around the environment, into second place. While last year green issues were cited by 41 per cent of young people as a worry, this proportion fell to 37 per cent this year.
Crime continues to be the third biggest worry according to young people, cited as a concern among a third of those surveyed this year and in 2022.
“Children who always worried about money were several times more likely to be unhappy,” said the Children’s Society.
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