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Our mission is to see the #BeeWell approach embedded across England – putting young people’s voices at the heart of youth wellbeing policy.
We are calling on policy makers to commit to a national programme of youth wellbeing measurement, learning from #BeeWell as an example of how to deliver it.
We are calling on the government to implement a national wellbeing measurement programme to address the needs of children and young people across England.
Together with our partners The Children’s Society, Fair Education Alliance and Pro Bono Economics, we are leading the ‘Our Wellbeing, Our Voice’ Campaign for a national wellbeing measurement programme. Join us in calling on the government to act now to measure young people’s wellbeing across the country!
This report from the Centre for Social Justice urges the government to give wellbeing the same priority as economic performance, calling for it to “collect and publish wellbeing metrics in the same way it does for GDP.”
The Social Market Foundation briefing calls for a National Children and Young People’s Wellbeing Measurement Programme to monitor wellbeing at individual, school, and regional levels, arguing that there is “no inherent trade-off between wellbeing and attainment.”
This report from the Education Policy Institute says “There are no current measures of pupil wellbeing available in centrally collected data … #BeeWell is an example of how this kind of data could be collected more widely, including providing information privately to schools, and publicly by where young people live.”
The report includes the call for “The Children’s Wellbeing Bill to incorporate the recommendation from the Fair Education Alliance, #BeeWell, Pro Bono Economics, and The Children’s Society to establish a national wellbeing measurement for assessing the wellbeing of children and young people”
This ‘Charting a happier course for England’s children: The case for universal wellbeing measurement’ report calls on the Government to establish a national wellbeing measurement programme and sets out a roadmap for change.
This report from The Children’s Society calls for the introduction of “a national measurement of children’s wellbeing, conducted every year to ask every child about their wellbeing, helping to guide the national mission and inform policy and local delivery.”
This Fair Education Alliance (FEA) report calls on the new Government to collect “nationally consistent, comprehensive data about the wellbeing of young people, using the work of #BeeWell as a model.”
This ‘improving mental health and wellbeing with and through educational settings’ report recommends rolling out programmes like #BeeWell nationally – to gather local information about children’s mental health and wellbeing, identifying areas of particular need, and enable schools, local authorities and allied professionals to offer tailored, early support.
Featuring #BeeWell as a case study, this Anna Freud manifesto calls on political parties, policy makers and funders to “implement a regular nationwide measurement of young people’s mental health and wellbeing.”
This Nuffield Foundation report entitled ‘A generation at risk: Rebalancing education in the post-pandemic era’ says: “informed by current trials of the #BeeWell scheme, we recommend that measuring young people’s wellbeing in schools is rolled out as a national policy.”
The Times Education Commission Report recommended conducting an annual wellbeing survey in all English secondary schools based on the #BeeWell model.
This manifesto recognises #BeeWell as a model solution in the call for rebalancing our system to value young people’s wellbeing alongside educational attainment.
Former Levelling Up Minister Andy Haldane described #BeeWell as an exemplar of Levelling Up.
The #BeeWell survey is being adapted and delivered by partners in other locations across England.
