LGBTQ+ young people are a group that disproportionately live with lower wellbeing. We now have great new evidence that the right support can make a difference for them.

Many thanks to Karol Rodriguez-Cabrera as well as @neilhumphrey.bsky.social and his team at @beewelluk.bsky.social

Great new evidence from Rachel Gomez on the longterm impacts of children’s mental health.

For the geeks among us…it goes beyond looking at correlations and shows that improvements in mental health as a child lead to better outcomes, even after controlling for a host of other factors.

Last week's better-than-expected GDP data is, of course, promising. But people's actual quality of life won't recover until we've addressed the long-term deterioration in these key drivers of wellbeing.

PBE's previous research highlights that deteriorating trends in physical health, mental health and loneliness are likely to be the main drivers of this deterioration.

pbe.co.uk/publications...

Most worryingly, around 2.7 million adults continue to live in wellbeing poverty (scoring 0-4 on the Life Satisfaction scale). This remains around 290,000 higher than it was in 2019.

UK is still recovering from the "wellbeing recession". Latest data from the ONS shows that average Life Satisfaction in the first quarter of 2025 remained 1.3% down on pre-pandemic levels.

I suspect this uncertainty for lower income households will come through in next Mondays personal wellbeing data release. The proportion of people living with a low overall quality of life - “wellbeing poverty” - likely to remain well above pre-pandemic levels.

Great to see @guardianheather.bsky.social make the case for better measures of social progress, pointing to research by our friends @pbe.co.uk www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Great article from @guardianheather.bsky.social - "a more direct focus on making the UK a happier place might help to improve decision-making"

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why has the nation’s wellbeing not bounced back following the pandemic?

Deteriorations in our physical health, mental health and loneliness explain much of the increase in ‘wellbeing poverty’.

We won’t see a recovery in the nation’s wellbeing outlook until we see improvements in these key drivers.

Great piece from @sarahdavidson.bsky.social.

Highlights that “overall, our governments have yet to convince us that they are using the available wellbeing data”

There’s more that can be done to tackle key drivers of low wellbeing as discussed in our new report coming out next week!