Children worse off in UK than in Estonia in the well-being stakes.

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 8:46 AM on 3rd May 2011

Children in Britain are lagging behind those in Slovenia, Estonia and Greece according to a charity’s calculation of their relative well-being.

Save The Children put Britain at 23 out of 43 ‘more developed’ countries in its table and described the result as a ‘national embarrassment’.

The charity’s annual State of the World’s Mothers report grades children’s well-being according to three factors – pre-primary enrolment, secondary school enrolment and under-five mortality rate.

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