A fortnight ago I found myself at the Government's very grand country house, Ditchley Park, in the Cotswolds. The aristocratic setting was arguably at odds with our topic - the absence of child wellbeing in Britain today.
The seminar was organised by Unicef UK. It followed up the international, comparative Unicef report Child Wellbeing in Rich Countries, which generated so much media comment in February as to suggest a national crisis. Why, according to the Unicef data, had the UK come out worst of 21 countries?
The Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries fared best. We scored significantly worse than poorer southern and eastern European states such as Spain, Italy, Greece and the Czech Republic.
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