Children with Special Educational Needs are more likely to become less happy as they get older, according to new research.
The government-funded study looked at changes in children's wellbeing as they passed through primary school and early secondary school.
The researchers measured factors like fears and anxieties (emotional wellbeing), getting into trouble (behavioural wellbeing), friendships (social wellbeing) and what the children said about their enjoyment of school (subjective school wellbeing).
About half the children's wellbeing stayed roughly the same, a quarter improved, and a quarter got worse.
Children with SEN were more likely to have poor wellbeing, which tended to get worse. Children with emotional and behavioural difficulties and children with specific learning difficulties (such as dyslexia) were most at risk.
Children who reported good relationships with their parents were more likely to increase their wellbeing. But when mothers were depressed, children's wellbeing got worse.
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