Task 4
Promoting children’s health and wellbeing is an important factor as the development of the child is vital. Ensuring children have a healthy lifestyle and will promote their well-being which will ensure they are satisfied. During the past decade, there has been a rapid growing interest in children’s well-being in the UK and internationally. McAuley and Rose, (2010). I chose to consider this lecture slide as it particularly interested me in how children’s well-being can be encouraged and promoted.
According to (Huppert and So, 2013) wellbeing has many positive consequences for example looking at the children’s effective learning, their productivity, health and their life expectancy to be longer. Well-being is taken as a serious issue as neglection of the child can cause various problems. Roberts (2010) thinks there are many different elements that are both separate but still bound together,
Going in to the definition of well-being, there are many possible ways to define wellbeing. One way to define wellbeing is ‘essentially contested’ meaning there are different ways to inhabit term of well-being. (Seedhouse 1995 In Camfield, Streuli, & Woodhead, 2009)
health and well-being is measured in various ways as it can be seen in a positive way or negative. Positive health and wellbeing is important for children to ensure they have all their needs met. The neds of the child can be met using Every Child Matters development matters which the settings use to track their milestones and what they are able to do and what they need to have a closer eye on.
UNICEF (2007:4) value children’s health and wellbeing and looks at their safety, material security, their education and social skills, also they look at the comfort needs and how they are valued in the environment and home.
Children’s rights is key to the concept of wellbeing which indicated and measures the focus on factors which provide children reach their goals and aspiration. Morrow and Mayall, (2009). Allowing children to choose their future is vital as the child will have a positive outcome in their health and well-being. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, (UNCRC, 1989) is where the child has their own rights to have a healthy lifestyle and healthy wellbeing.
In conclusion, I decided to choose this lecture as I was interested to find out about children’s health and wellbeing and how they can have a positive lifestyle. The comfort and needs of a child should be met for the child to have a healthy wellbeing. Going deeper into this topic of children’s health and wellbeing has elaborated my thinking on children’s health and wellbeing.
Bibliography and references
Huppert, F. A., & So, T. T. (2013). Flourishing across Europe: Application of a new conceptual framework for defining well-being. Social Indicators Research, 110(3), 837-861.
McAuley, C., and W. Rose. “Child well-being: Current issues and future directions.” Child well-being: Understanding children’s lives (2010): 207-218.
Morrow, V., & Mayall, B. (2009). What is wrong with children’s well-being in the UK? Questions of meaning and measurement 1. Journal of Social Welfare & Family Law, 31(3), 217-229
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) (2013) Child well-being in rich countries: A comparative overview. Innocenti Report Card 11. Available online at http://www.unicef.org.uk/Images/Campaigns/FINAL_RC11-ENG-LORES-fnl2.pdf