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54 years of data on what actually drives the children's mental health crisis. The evidence as it stands. Open to revision as the science develops.
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54 years of real data about children's mental health in the UK — and the factors research has proven drive it. The bars move left to right as time passes. When something important happened that the data responds to, a card appears explaining what happened and why it matters.
The most important thing to notice: the child poverty bar and the mental health bar move together almost every time. When poverty fell under the Blair government between 1997 and 2004 — the only time in 54 years it fell significantly — mental health briefly stabilised. That is not a coincidence. That is evidence.
This is a relatively young field. The visualisation reflects the current state of the evidence — pre-registered studies, government surveys, peer-reviewed meta-analyses. If new data changes the picture materially, this will be updated and that update will be noted publicly. The goal is not to win an argument. It is to make sure the response is aimed at the right thing.