Questions we are often asked.

Yes, not least because we are not inventing anything. Each component of the system exists and is in daily use abroad: investigative newsrooms run traceable document archives, universities run promise-trackers, and parliamentary monitors have followed national legislatures for more than twenty years. Our job is to piece together well-proven solutions and adapt them to the Icelandic setting: the machine speeds up the work, people carry the responsibility.

Various public bodies collect statistics on children and carry out oversight, each in its own field, and the Child Well-being Dashboard publishes important measures. HÆ does not replace them; it adds what only an independent body can provide: an independent overview across the systems, continuous follow-up on promises, and outside scrutiny.

Being funded is not the same as being beholden. Independence is protected in the structure itself: no single contribution holds a dominant share, no contribution carries conditions that bind our findings, and the funding is transparent. The organization is non-partisan, and board members serve as independent representatives under its statutes.

We analyse the system, not individual cases. The database holds no personally identifiable information about children or families; the profiles are about institutions, laws, services, and public decisions. Where people's experience provides context, it is never recorded in a personally identifiable way.