Postcode
Information category:
May be held by:
Local Authority data is held by an upper-tier (U) or lower-tier (L) authority in two-tier areas
Address
Registered Social Landlord
Care provider
Utility companies
Local Authority (U) - Blue Badge
Local Authority (U) - Technology Enabled Living service
Local Authority (L) - private housing team
Local Authority (L) - Housing management
Local Authority (L) - Council Tax
Local Authority (L) - Electoral Register
DWP
Private healthcare provider
NHS - Community Trust
NHS - Acute Trust
NHS - GP
Local Authority - Debt Advice
Local Authority (L) - Benefits
Local Authority - Customer Services
Local Authority (L) - Housing need, homelessness and waiting list
Local Authority (U) - Social Care
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Comments:
In a just world this would be auto-populated from OS AddressBase or a similar product. We don't live in a just world, and the number of typos in postcode records which have been manually input is perhaps one of the most obvious and visible data quality problems in this whole discussion.
