# Twenty healthy years apart. How does that happen? — revised film Version 2, researched 1 November 2026. AI narration. Builder checks, not independent analytical assurance. ## Editorial approach One question, a documented lived experience, compatible comparisons, dated survey evidence and a concrete connection to other issues. National measures, survey feelings and individual cases remain different kinds of evidence. No invented interview, no fictional composite presented as real, and no claim that one person represents everyone. ## Sources and limitations ### healthy-life https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthinequalities/bulletins/healthylifeexpectancybynationalareadeprivationenglandandwales/between2013to2015and2022to2024 England 2022–24: men 49.8/69.2, women 48.2/68.5 most/least deprived deciles. Healthy life expectancy at birth, not age at first illness or individual prognosis. ### poverty https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-for-financial-years-ending-1995-to-2025 Break in series from 2021/22: survey answers linked to DWP and HMRC records; figures before and after are not comparable (DWP note 1).; Great Britain only before 2002/03 (DWP notes 10 and 11).; Disability definition changed in 2012/13 (DWP note 38). ### poverty-case https://www.trussell.org.uk/our-work/what-we-do/who-needs-food-banks Trussell published accounts: Lowri needed food bank support after her business closed; Steve after an injury ended event-security work. The publisher uses actors to protect participants; this production paraphrases the real accounts and reuses no actor footage. Publication/event dates are not supplied for every account. ### poverty-survey https://www.jrf.org.uk/cost-of-living/jrfs-cost-of-living-tracker-summer-2026 JRF/Savanta Cost of Living Tracker, 7 May–5 June 2026, 4,121 UK adults 18+ in the lowest 40% of equivalised household income. Weighted for age, gender, region, ethnicity and tenure. 62% went without at least one essential over six months; 47% cut/skipped meals or went hungry over 30 days. Different windows; do not add or infer overlap. Not all UK households. ## Case studies and visuals Accounts are paraphrased from the original named publishers, not interviews conducted by UK Facts. Historical cases retain their actual dates; an undated case is labelled undated. Trussell’s original films used actors to protect the real participants: none of that actor footage is reused. Stock photographs are illustrative and do not show the case-study subjects or imply their endorsement. No photographs of the named refugee doctor or children are reused. ## Chart method Values are read from the canonical repository packages or the retained original source files, not extracted from chart pixels. Annual and monthly observations keep their real dates. Lines stop at stated methodological breaks and missing pandemic observations; animations do not create new data. Rebased pay/price comparisons show relative change, not a made-up household disposable-income budget. G7 output per worker is price-adjusted growth from the same World Bank/ILO source and matching endpoints, not wages or output per hour. PISA comparisons are alphabetical, not rankings, with sampling cautions and approximate 95% error bars. ## Surveys Survey panels are visibly purple and carry population and fieldwork period. Original questions, bases, weighting and limitations are retained in the research records and canonical source metadata. Different questions/providers are not averaged. Public priorities are multiple-response, not a pie. Public satisfaction and fear do not measure service outcomes or crime incidents. ## Policy and causality Connections illustrate plausible pathways and documented individual experiences; parallel trends do not identify a causal effect. Targets, commitments, delivered services and demonstrated benefits are separate. Proposals are not all costed or appraised; no invented benefit–cost ratio or savings. ## Illustrative photography Photos are scene-setting illustrations, not photographs of the people in the published cases. No endorsement or personal financial/medical circumstance is implied. Pexels licence checked 1 November 2026: https://www.pexels.com/license/ - Hospital corridor: Pavel Danilyuk, photo 8442619: https://www.pexels.com/photo/back-view-of-a-doctor-walking-through-a-hallway-8442619/ - Oxford homes: Peter Morch, photo 35402056: https://www.pexels.com/photo/victorian-terraced-houses-in-oxford-england-35402056/ - Empty classroom: 晓鸟 蓝, photo 36159720: https://www.pexels.com/photo/empty-classroom-with-blackboard-and-desks-36159720/ - Couple reviewing papers: Mikhail Nilov, photo 6964358: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-couple-people-woman-6964358/ - Shopper: Andrea Bova, photo 6488896: https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-man-walking-on-a-grocery-store-6488896/ Only the relevant opening photograph appears in each film. Original stock files are private production sources, not redistributed as stock.