Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what methodology is Department uses to collect data on children’s qualitative well-being.
The Department commissioned NHS Digital to undertake a follow up survey on a representative sample of children and young people (now ages 5 to 22 years) recruited in 2017 to take part in the Mental Health of Children and Young People in England Survey, who agreed to be re-contacted. The analysis of this survey was published on 22 October and is one of the main sources of evidence on children’s qualitative wellbeing and is available at the following link:
Methods for how commissioners and other health professionals can measure, understand and improve the mental wellbeing of children and young people is available at the following link:
A toolkit to help measure subjective mental wellbeing amongst the student population is available at the following link:
https://www.annafreud.org/schools-and-colleges/resources/mental-health-toolkit-for-schools/