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Survey finds UK 8 year old children are among the laziest

Published by SchoolAdvisor | Jun 09, 2016

According to a study of eight-year-olds in the UK, British children are among the least likely to be helpful around the house or doing their homework.Results suggest only 42 per cent of British children do homework every day, which put them at the bottom of the list below Ethiopia, where 61 per cent of youngsters do their homework daily.Although UK youngsters ranked the people they live with, health, and safety, highly in their responses, there were many areas which returned less positive results.Sam Royston, Policy Director at The Children’s Society stated his worries for the nation's children. He also suggested that the government should consider making it a legal requirement for schools in England to provide counselling and to allocate children’s mental health funding to promote children’s well-being.The survey was completed by 17,000 eight-year-olds from 16 countries, with nearly 1,000 children from the UK taking part. The countries included in the survey are: Algeria, Columbia, Estonia, Ethiopia, Germany, Israel, Malta, Nepal, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Turkey and the UK.The survey aims to provide a “fresh perspective” on the lives of young people across the world, and asked children about key aspects of their lives, such as family and home life, friendships, money and possessions, school life, local area, use of their time, personal well-being and overall happiness.