The Good Childhood Index, launched on Tuesday, aims to give professionals and practitioners a way of monitoring children's well-being over time by asking children and young people themselves about the quality of their lives.
The new tool will enable a way of monitoring subjective well-being - that is, how happy children are with life as a whole and different aspects of it. The society aims to use the index quarterly to measure any changes in the well-being of children generally.
The Children's Society has developed the index with the University of York, following surveys with 17,000 children in 2005, 2008 and 2010. Through their research, ten areas were identified as the most important aspects of children's well-being, including: family, friends, health, appearance, time use, the future, home, money and possessions, school and amount of choice.
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