Scotland and Wales have better levels of child wellbeing than England, claims a statistician's review of a controversial Unicef report that placed the UK's levels of child wellbeing at the bottom of a league table of industrialised nations (News, 15 February). Speaking on Radio 4's 'More or Less' programme last week, Dr Kevin McConway of the Open University said the report only used figures from England in some cases. He told Nursery World, 'Scotland and Wales did better on questions like whether their peers were kind and helpful - two-thirds said this was true, compared with 40 per cent in England.'
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