A strong and often unfair feeling in
favour or against a group of people.
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a strong and often unfair feeling is is against our group of people
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Two hundred and sixty-eight children and young
people in boarding schools, children’s homes and
other care and residential settings gave their views
and experiences about fairness and unfairness.
They defined fairness as everyone being treated
equally unless there was a good reason for different
treatment, having your rights, being listened to,
having what you ought to have, only being punished
for things you had actually done and only as much
as you deserved, and getting along together without
anyone being left out. The most common form of
unfairness towards children was being wrongly blamed
for something. Unfairness can also be when someone
else is treated better than you are. Sometimes children
who misbehave can get more attention and help than
those who behave themselves. Where children are
allowed to get away with some things because they
have a health problem, this can sometimes develop
into unfairness for others. It can be unfair to be
labelled and treated according to your past, or just
one past incident.
Children said they were treated most fairly by adults
running activities they go to, and by doctors and
health workers. However, waiting a long time to see
a doctor or health worker, or your health worries not
being taken seriously, were both seen as unfair. School
or college staff, then adults looking after children,
came next in how fairly they treated children. Then
came friends, people you were paying for a service or
buying something from, and other children generally.
Children said they are not treated very much more
fairly by their friends than by other children generally.
Children believe that they are treated least fairly by
the general public.
The most usual reactions to being treated unfairly
were telling a parent or teacher, or doing nothing
at all. Children feel sad, upset, angry and bad about
themselves when they are treated unfairly. They feel
angry when they see others being treated unfairly
too, and feel they should be doing more to help them.
From what they told us for this report, children feel
more angry and upset about being treated unfairly
than about almost anything else we have ever
asked them about over the nine years we have been
consulting children.
Children told us that how you behave towards other
people makes a great difference to how fairly you
are treated, and it is important to treat other people
in the way you expect them to treat you. Telling
someone if you are being unfairly treated, rather than
doing nothing, is important to being treated more
fairly in the future. Being polite is an important way to
help yourself be treated fairly. To treat children more
fairly, adults should support all children equally, treat
children kindly, and do more asking and listening to
their views and feelings.
Children said that being treated fairly makes children
feel very happy and good about themselves. Seeing
someone else being treated fairly is also good,
although there can be some jealousy if someone else
is being treated better than you are.
We were told that the children most likely to be
treated unfairly by other children are those who are,
or seem, ‘different’ in any way, those who misbehave,
and children from a different race or culture. Those
most likely to be treated unfairly by adults are children
who misbehave, who have a bad attitude, or are rude
or unkind to others. Disabled children and younger
children are particularly likely to be treated unfairly.
Overall, the large majority of children reported being
treated fairly, and children reported that the way they
are being treated is becoming fairer