New PSI research reveals the erosion of children’s independence

• Unique study covering the last 40-years reveals a dramatic loss of children’s independence outside the home.
• Only 25 per cent of primary school children in England are allowed to travel home from school alone compared with 86 per cent in 1971.
• Primary school children in England have far less freedom than they do in Germany.

Read a two-page briefing summarising key findings

Read the full report (PDF 248pp)

Children’s independent mobility: a comparative study in England and Germany (1971-2010) by Ben Shaw, Ben Watson, Bjorn Frauendienst, Andreas Redecker, Tim Jones, with Mayer Hillman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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