Official facts
CQC identifiers, regulated service facts, locations, provider names, ratings and care-home attributes are treated as official regulator data.
Methodology
Source-backed care-home intelligence with clear provenance.
CareHomeData is designed to make public and official care-sector records useful without mixing official facts, enriched contact routes and inferred intelligence into one unlabelled dataset.
Public-register matches
Companies House, Charity Commission, ICO and other public-register links are stored as matches with confidence and evidence.
Enriched signals
Websites, contact routes, planning signals and commercial indicators are stored separately with source URLs and freshness dates.
What gets labelled
Each important field should carry a source class: official, public-register, organisation-published, enriched, inferred or user-verified. This lets users see what came from a regulator, what came from a public register, and what was inferred by CareHomeData.
Official CQC facts should not be overwritten by enrichment. If a provider website, Companies House match or planning record suggests something different, that belongs in an evidence table or profile panel, not in the official CQC fact row.
What stays protected
The public site explains methodology, source categories and limited examples. Full search tables, profile pagination, exports, contact routes, saved lists and report downloads remain behind authenticated access.