Children's Wellbeing Report: LC460 Wellbeing in Society Module

This report, prepared for the LC460 Wellbeing in Society module, focuses on the multifaceted aspects of children's well-being. It begins with an introduction that defines well-being and its components, emphasizing the importance of physical, emotional, mental, and social health for children. The report then delves into two key concepts related to well-being: health and happiness, detailing their significance in a child's life. It further explores the main issues impacting children's well-being, including economic challenges and family/community issues, highlighting their adverse effects. Finally, the report discusses various strategies and initiatives aimed at enhancing children's well-being, such as physical activity, technology time management, prioritizing social and emotional learning, and investing in mental health consultations. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the need for comprehensive attention to children's well-being, incorporating insights from the provided references to support its arguments. The report aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the factors that influence children's well-being and offers practical strategies for improvement.

LC460 Wellbeing in Society

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Concepts that relate to well-being....................................................................................................3
Main issues relating to the well-being.............................................................................................5
Strategies/initiatives that seek to enhance the well-being................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Well-being refers to a complex combination of persons physical, emotional, mental and
social health factors. This is linked with happiness and that satisfaction. There is a general
agreement in which well-being includes the presence of positive moods and emotions like
happiness and the absence of negative emotions like anxiety, depression and provides
satisfaction with life. well-being integrates physical health, mental health and resulting in
Holistic approaches for Health Promotion and disease prevention. Well-being measures beyond
mortality, morbidity and economic status which allow people to perceive their life from their
perspective. Children's well-being represents Physical health development, safety, emotional and
psychological development, behavior and social development, education and cognitive
development. There are different approaches which should be done for providing better while
back to children. This can include physical health, mental health, psychological health,
emotional. This can only provide satisfaction and happiness to the children which can achieve
better well-being in society (Jancy, (2020)). Children's well-being is highly associated with the
better well-being of society. This can lead to provide a better life for children and creates a good
Society for living. Well-being in children can provide happiness to a family member and society
equal. This leads to creating a better future for everyone. In this report, there is a discussion
about issues related to well-being and two different concepts that relate to well-being. There is
also discussion about a strategy that can enhance the well-being of children. In this report, there
is a discussion about well-being in children's which provides better expectancy of life for
children in all aspects like physical health, mental health, emotions, satisfaction, happiness etc.
This can create a better standard of life and leads to the well-being of children (Aldridge,
(2018)). This report aims to provide a better understanding to achieve better well-being in
children. Principal Global and national influences on the emergence of well-being for every
individual in society. This needs to provide better physical and mental satisfaction which can
lead to provide better well-being. In context to this, every individual has the right to living. This
can relate to emotion, physical health, mental health, satisfaction and spending life with a better
standard that can promote well-being.

Concepts that relate to well-being
There are the different concept of well-being which can be related with physical well-
being, social well-being, economic well-being, development and activity, emotional well-being,
psychological well-being and many more. This can have a high impact on the overall well-being
of children. There are some of the concepts which can be necessary to provide better well-being
for children that are discussed further.
Health- This is one of the most necessary factors which can create a high difference in
getting well. There is physical and mental health which can lead to provide better well-being and
vice versa. This includes physical and mental health in children. There are different types of
diseases, infections and some adverse effects can be there. This can directly impact the physical
health of children (BaniHani, (2018)). For this, there is a need to provide them better nutritional
products and provide great quality of life which can achieve better well-being in Physical and
mental health. It is necessary to keep them watching from time to time that is to ensure that they
should not take any dangerous activity by themselves. This can impact their physical health
which is important for children because this can create happiness and better well-being. Mental
health is also one of the compulsory health for the better well-being of children. This is the one
in which they need to get better happiness, sadness. This can highly impact the mental status of
children and leads to directly impact the well-being of children. In this, there is a need to provide
them better care which leads to satisfaction feeling of emotion and love which provided better
care. To share their emotion and better manage that can provide them to fulfill their basic needs
and relates to providing better effect on their mental health. They should not see any disturbing
situation or scenario which can have a direct impact on their mental health and can lead to affect
their well-being (McAnally, (2021)). Children are innocent and they like to connect with every
people and like to collect different types of knowledge which can directly impact their mental
health. This creates happiness and better care which can relate to provide them mental
satisfaction in addition to better well-being. Physical and mental health both are important for the
children for growing and better development in their personal life. This is the one which can
provide them to get better development biological and physically in their life. So, it can be said
that there is a need for better help which includes the physical and mental health of children for
their well-being. For providing better physical and mental health along with well-being, there is a
different diverse population. There is a need to provide a better Holistic relationship which can

be done by family members and Society. This is the one which can lead to provide someone
available to the children for providing better care in society. This can lead to performing them
well in their life to perform better lifestyle. Holistic relationships, physical and mental health
have a high role in society and family members need to provide better care to their children
which can lead to better well-being and make them happy and satisfied in their life. This creates
some sort of satisfaction for children which makes them mentally strong and helps in better well-
being (Harding, (2019)).
Happiness- This is the one which plays and high role in the well-being of children. This
is the one which plays a role in young people related with emotion which directly connected with
children happiness. There are some of the reasons and provide better happiness to children to get
better well-being. Children's happiness is related with different social factor which is their
education, playground, interesting episodes, movies and many more. One of the main sources of
happiness is their friends during education. This is the one that creates happiness and full of
emotion which is there in an educational place. In school, children can get emotionally attached
with their friends and due to performance in class, the teacher provides emotion which can
provide them happiness accordingly. During playing games, children can get happy when they
play well and perform well in their role which provides happiness within children. Students get
happiness by performing different curriculum which is the academic attention had two different
activities other games, sports or different interesting activity. This leads them to get happiness at
their educational place and leads to perform well with happiness. This has a high impact on their
personal life and which can be there on well-being overall (Wong, (2021)).
Main issues relating to the well-being
There are different issues and challenges which are generally faced by children for their
well-being which are going to be discussed further.
Economic issue- This is the one that has a high impact on the well-being of children.
This is due to a lack of economy which relates to poverty. This is the one which restricts children
to get their basic things and which leads to creating a negative impact on well-being. They are
not able to get a better education or any type of work. This leads to creating more poverty and
impact on well-being. Economic impact the well-being of children which is due to not having a
strong economy. They are not able to get a balanced diet and the nutrition which they need for

better growth. This lead to creating different health-related problem to children which highly
impact well-being (O’Loughlin, (2017)).
Family and community issues- This is the one which creates issues for children well
being which is when any children don't have parents or having only a single parent in the family.
This creates sorrow for them due to not having a complete family. They get upset when they see
that other children have their family and they do not have a full family. This creates a dilemma in
their mind, children who live in poverty areas get an effect on the development which is due to
the livelihood of that society. This creates a high impact on the evolving and leads to create
different difficulty in family and Society.
Strategies/initiatives that seek to enhance the well-being
For the better well-being of children, there is a need to use some strategy that can provide
a better and effective way that can lead to better well-being. There are some of the strategies
which can be used ineffective way to provide better well-being in children. These strategies are
discussed further.
Physical activity- This is one of the strategies which can help to provide high benefit with
the help of exercise. This is essential for everyone, especially in children. Exercises include
poster positive mood along with releasing of stress within children. This can help to provide
them fresh air either by playing sports or different physical activity. This is the one which can
make them tired and provide better sleep which leads to better well-being for the children
(Dunning, (2019)).
Technology time- Today's generation is attached to technology which creates satisfaction
for children by using some technology in maximum time. In this, there is a need to provide some
time limit to the children for using different technology. This can provide satisfaction within
them and create the happiness that they use the technology and achieve the work with to perform
their little hours. Technology helps to do the work easily and also provides a lot of information
which is the interest of children that creates a high level of happiness within them and leads to
better well-being (Hou, (2021)).
Privatizing social and emotional learning- This is highly required for children to
resolving conflicts either with their teacher or with their friends. This is the one that can help
them against negative behavior. Social learning can lead them to get better society and help them
to be ethical in all aspects which described the learning to spend life with society in a better and

effective manner. Emotional learning can also help them to get and achieve different emotions
like happiness, sorrow, Joy etc. This has their value and creates a high degree of happiness to
children and this lead to provide them better well being.
Investing in Mental Health consultation- Mental health consultants are the ones, who
can play a critical role in supporting children and adults. They are the ones who can identify
different issues with children's behavior and help to find some constructive way to resolve this.
They are the one who can offer behavioral health plans which can provide a better way to deal
with any situation and behavior and leads to change in attitude and behavior of children. This can
either help to resolve the situation through which they are struggling. Investing in mental health
consultation can provide better attention regarding their mental health which is highly necessary
for better well-being within children (Stronge, (2019)).
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it can be concluded that there is a need to provide better
attention regarding the well-being of children. This is a need to focus on mental health and many
more. In this report, there is a discussion about Children's well-being and different concept
related to children's well-being. This leads to improved health and happiness. There is also a
discussion about some of the issues like economy, family and community which have an impact
on Children's well-being. There is a discussion about some strategy which can enhance well-
being within children which includes physical activity, Technology time, prioritizing social and
emotional learning and investing in mental health consultation which can provide better well
being within children.

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