# Approved corpus acquisition and review decisions

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    type: "Research Decision"
    title: "Approved corpus acquisition and review decisions"
    description: "Owner-approved service-family denominator, local coverage, identifier, health-permission, regulator, redress and specialist-review decisions."
    status: "approved"
    timestamp: "2026-08-07T00:00:00+01:00"
    generated:
      by: "ai:openai-codex"
      at: "2026-08-07T00:00:00+01:00"
    sources:
      - id: "ons-geography-codes"
        title: "ONS names, codes and lookups"
        resource: "https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/geography/geographicalproducts/namescodesandlookups"
        author: "organisation:office-for-national-statistics"
        observed_at: "2026-08-07"
      - id: "nhs-organisation-data-service"
        title: "NHS England Organisation Data Service"
        resource: "https://digital.nhs.uk/services/organisation-data-service"
        author: "organisation:nhs-england"
        observed_at: "2026-08-07"
    ---

    # Approved corpus acquisition and review decisions

    Decision date: 2026-08-07

    Decision owner: `owner:chris-page-gov`

    Machine-readable decisions:

    - [293-family denominator](../source/service-family-denominator.v1.yaml)
    - [corpus acquisition policy](../profiles/corpus-acquisition-policy.v1.yaml)
    - [external reference inventory](../source/exhaustive-reference-inventory.v1.yaml)
    - [current authority and geography registry](../source/authority-registry.v1.yaml)

    ## 1. Service-family denominator

    The approved denominator contains 293 uniquely named canonical service
    families across all 24 life-course domains. It is inside the planned 250–400
    range and is split into three acquisition waves:

    | Wave | Families | Purpose |
    |---|---:|---|
    | 1 | 96 | Core life events, common routes and extensions of the proven slices |
    | 2 | 96 | Evidence, exceptions, redress and locally delivered routes |
    | 3 | 101 | Specialist, cross-border and private-dependency handoffs |

    The names are normalized planning identifiers, not official assertions. The
    decision authorizes staged leaf-reference registration against those names. It
    does not authorize snapshots, copied source content, unsupported equivalence,
    personalized decisions, corpus publication or CI.

    ## 2. Local coverage and identifiers

    The approved local model has two layers:

    1. an exhaustive registry of every active principal authority and functional
       body in the approved official denominators; and
    2. one current leaf route for each governed structural archetype plus every
       known material exception.

    The project will not copy the same family across every council and call that
    meaningful coverage. A claim about a named place still requires the responsible
    provider's current page.

    This layer was implemented and re-observed on 2026-08-08. It records 382
    principal-authority areas and normalized actors, 19 strategic/combined
    authorities, 397 dated GSS geographies and 438 organizations. The 382 total is
    the May 2026 local-authority-district denominator plus the 21 separately
    retained December 2024 English county areas needed for two-tier topology.
    Strategic authorities comprise 15 May 2025 GSS combined-authority areas and
    four later official source-native identities. Surrey shadow bodies remain
    explicitly preparatory until the 2027 service transfer.

    The primary administrative-geography identifier is the dated nine-character
    GSS code published through the ONS names, codes, lookups and history products.
    Every geography record retains its type, official name, vintage or effective
    date, source and observation date. ODS codes identify health and social-care
    organisations where the declared ODS coverage applies; source-native IDs are
    retained elsewhere. Postcodes may be used transiently to discover an authority
    but are never stored and never become stable service identity.

    ONS-published Welsh labels are variants of the same geography only because
    they occur in the same official GSS record. For other sources, explicit
    publisher pairing is required; label and URL similarity are prohibited. The
    current ESD Services list is an optional mapping vocabulary and never proves
    current service availability.

    ## 3. Health permissions

    The decision is to keep all four national health families manual,
    link-and-original-summary only. No provider-permission request is made now.
    England's OGL terms do not require this conservative limit, but using the same
    project policy avoids accidental reuse of excluded content. NHS inform's
    no-scraping term, NHS 111 Wales copyright boundary and HSCNI non-commercial
    conditions remain controlling limitations.

    Permission will be reconsidered only if a named acquisition wave genuinely
    requires automated directory or content extraction. No medical material is
    converted into individual advice or eligibility logic.

    ## 4. Private dependencies and redress

    Private dependencies now use a regulator-first rule. Discovery starts with a
    statutory regulator, mandatory register, licensing authority or statutory
    redress body. A named provider is added only when a journey requires that
    specific provider and the selection basis is recorded. Commercial rankings,
    marketing copy and implied endorsement are prohibited.

    The redress taxonomy is:

    1. provider internal review or complaint;
    2. statutory reconsideration or review;
    3. tribunal or specialist appeal;
    4. regulator or ombudsman; and
    5. court or judicial review.

    This is not a universal procedure. Each family must cite its actual sequence,
    prerequisites, jurisdiction and deadlines.

    The shared registry now implements reusable regulator/register and redress
    identities across the ten approved sectors. This closes the common identity
    infrastructure; it does not complete any family's dependency, admissibility or
    deadline claims.

    ## 5. Source-link verification

    Live link verification is a reviewed metadata-only acquisition check, separate
    from deterministic offline builds. The 2026-08-08 authority-source audit
    recorded seven active external sources with HTTP metadata and no response body.
    Primary-link failure blocks the affected family; secondary-link failure becomes
    an explicit gap. No source snapshot or response content is retained.

    ## 6. Review nominations

    `owner:chris-page-gov` is nominated as editorial and release-gate coordinator.
    Three specialist roles are approved:

    - a suitably qualified UK legal or public-policy procedure reviewer;
    - a currently registered clinician or clinical-safety specialist; and
    - the authoritative service owner, policy specialist or equivalent subject
      reviewer for eligibility, evidence, fee, deadline and exception claims.

    The legal and clinical roles are deliberately not assigned to an invented or
    unconsenting person. Their individual appointments remain visible blockers for
    production-grade legal and medical claims. Educational examples may proceed
    only with normalized or `editorial-example` status and explicit limitations.

    ## 7. Explorer large-corpus projection

    `okf-explorer-large-corpus.v1` is approved for local evaluation. On 2026-08-07,
    `REV-001` through `REV-004` were closed by local browser evidence for
    relationship authority, node build provenance, rendered source handoffs and
    the first-class licence/notice surface. The projection exposes
    colour facets for life-course domain, acquisition wave, delivery scope,
    jurisdiction, implementation status, assertion status and rights state.

    The [large-corpus review](../evaluation/reviews/large-corpus-2026-08-07.md)
    records 293 searchable planning families and seven reconciled facets. This
    decision does not authorize GitHub Pages or any public URL.