Corrections & accountability
Last updated: 22 July 2026
1. Who publishes NestScope
NestScope UK is an independent, self-funded site built and run by one person in the United Kingdom. It is not owned by an estate agent, a portal, a lender or a data broker, and it has no investors to answer to.
There are no ads, no affiliate links, no sponsored areas and no paid placement: no school, agent or neighbourhood can pay to look better here, and none has ever asked. We do not sell or share personal data — see the Privacy Policy. We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office as a data controller.
The site is published under the NestScope name rather than a personal byline. That is a deliberate choice, and we would rather be judged on something more testable than a name: every figure names its source and its vintage, the method behind the NestScope Score is public, and every correction we make is logged below with a date. If a number here is wrong, you can tell us and watch what happens to it.
2. Telling us something is wrong
Email hello@nestscope.uk. The more of this you can include, the faster it moves:
- the page address (for example
nestscope.uk/area/GU1+3UP); - the figure or statement you believe is wrong, copied as it appears;
- what you believe is correct, and where that comes from if you have it.
You do not need an account, and you do not need to be the school, business or council concerned — anyone can report anything. If you are the organisation being described, say so and we will prioritise it.
3. What happens next
- We reply within 5 working days. This is a one-person site, so that is a genuine target rather than a call-centre promise.
- If the mistake is ours — a wrong label, a bad calculation, a misleading presentation — we fix it and add a dated entry to the log below, whether or not anyone else would ever have noticed.
- If the figure is what the official source published, we say so and point you at the body that owns the record, because they are the only ones who can change it. Where a published figure is misleading rather than wrong, we will change how we present it — that part is ours.
- If we cannot verify either way, we say that too, and where the doubt is material we mark it on the page rather than leave a confident-looking number standing.
4. What we can and cannot change
Almost everything on NestScope is official open data, re-presented. We do not edit source records. Ofsted grades and school details come from Ofsted and the Department for Education; crime from the Home Office data service; flood risk from the Environment Agency; sold prices from HM Land Registry; deprivation from the Indices of Deprivation. Corrections to those records have to be made by those bodies, and the school or council concerned is usually the fastest route.
What is entirely ours — and therefore entirely our responsibility — is the selection, the arithmetic, the wording and the emphasis: which sources we use, what radius counts as “nearby”, how the NestScope Score is weighted, and whether a figure is presented in a way a reasonable person would find fair.
5. What these numbers cannot tell you
Being useful means being honest about the edges. NestScope will not tell you whether the neighbours are pleasant, whether a school suits your particular child, what a street feels like at 11pm, or what any of this will look like in five years. Crime figures reflect reported crime, and reporting rates differ between areas. Ofsted grades are a judgement made on particular days, some of them years ago, and since September 2024 there is no single overall grade for state schools at all. Sold prices are historical transactions, not a valuation of any specific home.
We would rather you visited the street than trusted a dashboard. The data is for narrowing the list.
6. Corrections log
Every user-visible correction, newest first. Entries marked source were errors in official data that we work around rather than fix.
22 July 2026 — Map · Health layer
What was wrong: Pharmacies and dentists opened a map popup badged “GP Practice”. The location and the pin were right; the label was not.
What changed: The popup now reads the facility type and labels each one correctly.
Whose mistake: ours
22 July 2026 — Area report · Amenities
What was wrong: The Amenities headline counted supermarkets only, although the section — and the score behind it — also covers libraries.
What changed: The headline now counts both, and the label says so.
Whose mistake: ours
22 July 2026 — Map · Crime layer
What was wrong: Crime types without a category of their own (drugs, public order, theft) were drawn in almost exactly the same red as violent crime, so the map overstated how much violence an area had.
What changed: Those categories are now a neutral grey, and every category’s colour is identical in the map, the filter and the breakdown list.
Whose mistake: ours
14 July 2026 — School pages · KS2
What was wrong: A national primary-results figure rendered as a negative number on school pages.
What changed: Corrected at the source of the calculation.
Whose mistake: ours
14 July 2026 — School pages · Ofsted
What was wrong: The Ofsted panel could hide itself, or show sub-judgement rows with no value in them.
What changed: The panel now renders whatever Ofsted has published for that school, and nothing where there is no judgement.
Whose mistake: ours
10 July 2026 — Place pages
What was wrong: A handful of schools carry a town field in the DfE register that is not a town at all (a postcode, a number, an unselected dropdown value). Each was generating a nonsense “schools in …” page.
What changed: Those values are filtered out. The underlying records are the DfE’s and we do not edit them.
Whose mistake: the source’s
The log starts in July 2026, when this page was published. Fixes made before then are in the site’s release history rather than here.