Data sources

Data sources and methodology

Version 1.2Last reviewed

1. Housing Ombudsman Service: determinations

Provenance
Housing Ombudsman Service website
Collection frequency
Automated weekly ingestion (Sunday nights). New determinations are added incrementally and existing records are updated where amended at source. The ScoreView crawler identifies itself by User-Agent string and respects robots.txt directives. ThinkTribal will move to an official Housing Ombudsman API or bulk download route in preference to scraping where one becomes available.
Fields captured
Case reference, landlord name, landlord type, complaint categories, outcome, remedy types, remedy amounts, published date, and source URL. The full determination text is not stored.
Processing rules
Outcome codes are normalised to a controlled vocabulary including maladministration, service failure, no maladministration, and learning recommended. Parse failures are flagged as parse_errorand excluded from analytics aggregations.
Known limitations
Ingested metadata depends on consistent HTML structure from the HOS website. Structural changes might temporarily reduce parse accuracy until the ingestion process is updated. Landlords with insufficient determinations for a reliable rate calculation are flagged in the user interface.
Last successful update
Unknown, 0 determinations

2. Regulator of Social Housing: regulatory judgements

Provenance
RSH Regulatory Judgements on GOV.UK
Collection frequency
On-demand import. New judgements are added when a ScoreView administrator runs the RSH ingestion process, typically within days of a new RSH publication.
Fields captured
Viability grade (V1 to V4), Governance grade (G1 to G4), Consumer grade (C1 to C4), judgement date, and a link to the source PDF. An AI-generated summary of the judgement letter is stored where a PDF is available, derived from the published text under the OGL.
Known limitations
Grades reflect the most recent published judgement per landlord. Interim notices and In Depth Assessments (IDAs) are flagged separately where detected. Historical grade series are not retained; only the current grade is shown.
Last successful update
Refreshed on demand. Each landlord profile shows the date of the underlying judgement.

3. Regulator of Social Housing: Statistical Data Return (SDR)

Provenance
RSH Statistical Data Return
Collection frequency
Annual. Updated when the RSH publishes its latest SDR dataset, typically in autumn.
Fields captured
Stock unit counts (homes managed) per landlord, used to compute per-10,000-homes rate metrics.
Known limitations
Stock figures lag by up to 18 months and might not reflect recent transfers or mergers. Per-10k rates are suppressed for landlords where stock data is unavailable.

4. Regulator of Social Housing: Tenant Satisfaction Measures (TSM)

Provenance
RSH Tenant Satisfaction Measures
Collection frequency
Annual. TSM scores are published by the RSH each year. ScoreView imports the latest release.
Fields captured
Headline TSM indicators including TP01 (overall satisfaction), TP02 (repairs satisfaction), TP03 (time to complete), and others.
Known limitations
Not all registered providers submit TSM returns. Missing data is shown as unavailable in the landlord profile.

5. Housing Ombudsman Service: landlord performance reports

Provenance
HO Landlord Performance
Collection frequency
On-demand import when the HO publishes new performance data.
Fields captured
Annual maladministration rate, remedy compliance rate, and Complaint Handling Code (CHC) compliance per landlord.

6. Housing Ombudsman Service: Spotlight and thematic reports

Provenance
HO Spotlight and thematic publications
Collection frequency
Periodic scrape of the HO publications listing. New Spotlight and thematic reports are detected, tagged by theme via keyword matching, and upserted into the thematic reports table.
Fields captured
Report title, publication date, source URL, and derived theme tags. The full report text is not stored.
Known limitations
Theme tagging is keyword-based and indicative only. A report might cover themes not surfaced by the keyword set.

7. Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman: decisions

Provenance
LGSCO Decisions
Collection frequency
Periodic ingestion of decisions relevant to social housing (registered providers).
Fields captured
Complaint topic, outcome, and a link to the published decision summary. The full decision text is not stored.

Beta data, treat with caution. LGSCO content is provided for context only. Parse error rates might be elevated due to inconsistent HTML structure. Analytics derived from LGSCO data are clearly labelled as provisional in the user interface.

8. MHCLG: English Housing Survey (EHS)

Provenance
MHCLG English Housing Survey
Collection frequency
Annual. Imported on demand from the latest published EHS stock-condition release.
Fields captured
Sector-level stock-condition benchmarks (e.g. non-decent homes, damp incidence, HHSRS Category 1 hazards). Used as overlay comparators against landlord-level metrics.
Known limitations
EHS figures are sector-level, not landlord-level. Overlays are presented as context, not as a per-landlord measure.

9. MHCLG: Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD 2019)

Provenance
English Indices of Deprivation 2019 (File 10, LA District Summaries)
Collection frequency
One-off import per IMD release (current dataset: IMD 2019). Refreshed when MHCLG publishes a new edition.
Fields captured
Local authority district-level deprivation scores and ranks. Joined to landlord operating-area data to provide regional context.
Known limitations
IMD 2019 reflects pre-pandemic conditions. A landlord's stock may span multiple LA districts; the join is at LA district granularity.

10. MHCLG: Local Authority Housing Statistics (LAHS)

Provenance
MHCLG Local Authority Housing Statistics
Collection frequency
Annual. Imported on demand from the latest published LAHS release.
Fields captured
Local authority-held stock unit counts, used alongside RSH SDR to compute per-10,000-homes rate metrics for local authority landlords.
Known limitations
LAHS covers local authority stock only, not housing association stock. Coverage gaps and submission inconsistencies are possible.

11. Companies House

Provenance
Companies House
Collection frequency
On-demand bulk import from the Companies House public data products (free company data and accounts data snapshots). Refreshed when a ScoreView administrator runs the import script.
Fields captured
Registration number, registered office address, filing status, group or parent relationships, and selected annual filing figures used to populate the landlord financial trajectory. Director residential addresses are not stored and are not displayed.

12. Charity Commission

Provenance
Register of Charities
Collection frequency
On-demand bulk import from the Charity Commission Register public download (charity register plus annual return parts A and B). Refreshed when a ScoreView administrator runs the import script.
Fields captured
Registered charity number, registered status, link to Companies House where applicable, and the most recent annual return income, expenditure, and balance sheet figures used to populate the landlord financial trajectory for charitable registered providers. Trustee personal data is not stored.

13. AI summary methodology

ScoreView generates two types of AI content. All AI generation is performed server-side. No user data or search queries are sent to third-party AI providers other than via this server-side integration.

Determination summaries
A 150 to 250 word structured summary is generated at ingestion time for each new determination. The prompt is given structured metadata only (landlord, categories, outcome, remedy), not the full determination text. Temperature is set to 0.2 for consistency. Summaries are not generated for records with parse errors, unknown landlords, or empty categories. Summaries are ThinkTribal work product and are not Crown copyright.
Sector briefings
Query-time AI briefings synthesise across up to 50 filtered records (metadata and summaries only). Temperature is set to 0 for reproducibility. Briefings are not cached; each generation reflects the corpus state at the time of the request. A briefing is labelled with the number of records it was derived from and a corpus timestamp.

Each summary displayed in ScoreView is labelled as AI-generated and not verified. ThinkTribal samples summaries for accuracy on a regular basis and publishes the most recent sampled accuracy rate in the ScoreView trust centre. To report an inaccurate summary, use the in-product report mechanism or the Right of Correction process below. ThinkTribal commits to acknowledge inaccuracy reports within five working days and to correct or remove inaccurate content within ten working days of acknowledgement.

AI briefings are produced by an automated language model and are provided for research assistance only. AI briefings do not constitute legal advice, regulatory guidance, or a professional opinion on any landlord, complaint, or regulatory matter.

14. Regulatory tagging methodology

Determinations are automatically tagged with two regulatory markers where the source metadata or AI-generated summary contains relevant keywords. Tagging is applied programmatically at ingestion time and is not reviewed by qualified legal counsel. Tags are indicative only.

Awaab's Law
Applied where complaint categories or the AI summary contain keywords associated with damp, mould, condensation, hazardous disrepair, or related housing conditions. Awaab's Law is the working name given to the duties on social landlords introduced through the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 and associated secondary legislation, following the death of Awaab Ishak in 2020. Tagged determinations are marked with an Awaab's Law badge in the user interface.
Building Safety Act
Applied where complaint categories or the AI summary contain keywords associated with cladding, external wall systems, fire safety, or building safety remediation. The Building Safety Act 2022 introduced new duties on responsible persons for higher-risk buildings. Tagged determinations are marked with a Building Safety Act badge in the user interface.

A tag does not constitute a legal finding under the cited legislation, does not mean the named landlord has been found in breach, and does not mean the legislation is engaged in respect of the matter. Tags are produced for navigation and research convenience only. ScoreView gives no representation or warranty to the contrary. Tags might contain false positives and false negatives.

15. Emerging-risk framing in the Theme Tracker

The Determination Theme Tracker on the analytics page presents sector-aggregate movement of complaint themes as “emerging risks across the cohort”. This framing is intended to describe where, across the population of registered social housing providers, the Housing Ombudsman and the Regulator of Social Housing have been concentrating enforcement over the most recent quarters. It is a description of what peers are encountering, not a predictive judgement on any individual landlord. A theme is flagged as a “rising risk in the cohort” when its share of qualifying findings has increased by at least 5 percentage points across the visible window and the most recent quarter has a non-zero share. Per-landlord interpretations of these trends are available only to authenticated users on the protected surface and are never published against a named landlord on the public surface.

16. Right of correction

If you are a registered provider, regulator, or member of the public and you believe ScoreView contains inaccurate, out of date, or unfairly presented information, please contact corrections@thinktribal.co.uk. ThinkTribal will acknowledge correction requests within five working days and respond substantively within fifteen working days. Where ThinkTribal accepts a correction is required, the affected content will be amended or removed within ten working days of acknowledgement, and a record of the correction will be retained in an internal correction log.

ThinkTribal will also accept written requests from a source publisher (the Housing Ombudsman Service, the Regulator of Social Housing, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman, Companies House, or the Charity Commission) to remove or amend ScoreView content derived from that publisher's data. Such requests will be acted on within five working days of receipt.

17. Privacy

Where ScoreView processes personal data drawn from third-party sources, ThinkTribal acts as data controller and relies on the legitimate interests lawful basis under Article 6(1)(f) of the UK GDPR. ThinkTribal has completed a Legitimate Interests Assessment and a Data Protection Impact Assessment for the data ingestion and AI summarisation processes. The full ScoreView Privacy Notice sets out the categories of personal data processed, the safeguards applied, the Article 14 information provided to data subjects whose data has been collected from third-party sources, the data retention periods, and the rights available to data subjects under the UK GDPR including the right of access, rectification, and erasure. ThinkTribal also follows ICO guidance on generative AI and data protection.

To exercise data subject rights or to contact ThinkTribal in respect of personal data processed by ScoreView, please email privacy@thinktribal.co.uk.

AI inference for ScoreView is performed by Anthropic, PBC (United States) under a written processing agreement with ThinkTribal. Where AI inference involves a transfer of personal data outside the United Kingdom, ThinkTribal relies on the UK International Data Transfer Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses as the transfer mechanism. The full sub-processor list, retention periods, and AI-specific safeguards are set out in the ScoreView Privacy Policy.

18. Open Government Licence v3.0

The Open Government Licence v3.0 permits free use of public sector information, subject to acknowledgement. ScoreView acknowledges all source publishers as set out on this page. The Open Government Licence applies only to material licensed under it by the source publisher. ScoreView does not assert OGL coverage over material licensed under different terms, including LGSCO content and material subject to the Companies House Terms of Use or the Charity Commission Terms of Use.

19. Limitations and disclaimers

ScoreView is an independent research and intelligence aggregation tool operated by ThinkTribal Ltd. ScoreView is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or acting on behalf of any of the data sources listed above, nor on behalf of any landlord, regulator, or public body.

ScoreView content is provided for research and information purposes only. ScoreView content is not legal advice, regulatory guidance, an audit opinion, a credit rating, or a professional service. Decisions affecting tenants, contracts, procurement, or regulatory action should not be made on the basis of ScoreView content alone.

ScoreView aggregates and reformulates third-party data and might lag behind the source publisher. ThinkTribal does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, currency, or fitness for purpose of any ScoreView content, including AI-generated summaries, briefings, regulatory tags, or composite ratings. To the maximum extent permitted by law, ThinkTribal disclaims liability for any loss or damage arising from reliance on ScoreView content.

ScoreView ratings represent ThinkTribal's honest opinion based on the third-party data referenced on this page. Where a landlord disputes a rating, the Right of Correction process above applies.

20. Methodology versioning

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