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The APPG last did a session on children and young people’s wellbeing in December 2018. Since then, there have been significant changes in the wellbeing of children and young people, particularly as a result of the effects of Covid-19. There are also now a large number of projects aiming to measure and improve life for young people in the UK and in one of his first speeches as Education...

“The UK government is committed to levelling up across the whole of the United Kingdom to ensure that no community is left behind, particularly as we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.” gov.uk This meeting discussed what it would mean to use differences in wellbeing and wellbeing inequalities to inform the levelling up agenda and associated investments, explicitly and deliberately taking it...

The Covid-19 pandemic is a major health crisis. Covid-related policies, guidance and behaviours have resulted in changes to our lives that go well beyond the health sphere. The impact to our personal, economic and social lives has been extensive, profound and unprecedented. Looking at the impact of Covid-19 on wellbeing outcomes requires understanding the numerous ways our lives have been...

How can businesses improve wellbeing, through employment practices as well as the wider impact on society? In this meeting we heard from speakers who shared their insights and experience on the relationship between wellbeing and businesses. We discussed: What businesses can do for the wellbeing of their own employees. What it means for business to have broader wellbeing goals relating to their...

In this meeting we will hear from speakers who have been leading the implementation of a wellbeing agenda across the UK.

The report launch of A Spending Review to Increase Wellbeing: an open letter to the Chancellor, written by Lord Richard Layard.

Date: Tuesday 5th MarchChair: Chris Ruane The 2019 Spending Review presents an opportunity for the UK to be explicit about it’s goals and allocate spending accordingly. The APPG on Wellbeing Economics will discuss how taking a wellbeing approach, that values and measures all the things that are most important to us and our lives, can help us to identify some key new priorities for spending...

Tuesday 18th December 2018Chair: Chris Ruane This meeting is an opportunity to review why measuring children’s wellbeing is important and what impact a systematic approach could have on policy making. It will then explore why we do not yet systematically measure the wellbeing of children. Participants will discuss the strength of the case for measuring children’s wellbeing and what would help...

1st March 2016 Chair: Mark Easton, BBC News Home Editor This event brought together parliamentarians and key players from across civil society and the business world to discuss the question: ‘How should we measure national success?’ The roundtable opened with a brief presentation by the New Economics Foundation, summarising their recent call on the ONS to adopt five headline indicators...

24th March 2015 This event brought together candidates from political parties to set out their party’s approach to wellbeing, and to answer questions from APPG members as well as the public audience in the traditional ‘hustings’ format. The event was hosted by co-chair Baroness Claire Tyler, and chaired by Lord Gus O’Donnell. The candidates were:– For Labour: Helen Goodman MP– For the...