Danny Dorling: Seven typical British children today – injustice and hope

Danny Dorling

If we found seven typical 6-year-old children to represent today’s UK, who would they be? What would their stories reveal? Amid the cost-of-living crisis, this could be a depressing story, when even the best-off of the seven is disadvantaged. Yet aspirations endure, and there are many signs that things could be getting better. What do we miss when we focus only on the super-rich and the most deprived? What kinds of lives are British children living between the extremes? And how can we reverse the trends that have in recent years been leaving most children worse off than their parents?