How often data is updated

There is no site-wide update frequency, and the absence is deliberate.

"Updated daily" is a claim about a process. It is what every listing service publishes and it tells a reader nothing about the record in front of them, because a daily crawl that has not reached a particular feed for a week still counts as daily.

What we publish instead is per-record and per-feed.

Per record

Every record carries last_verified_at — the date it was last confirmed against its source — and verify_method, which says how that check was made. A field re-read from the page and a field carried forward because a feed reported no change are different evidence, and the method keeps them distinguishable.

Per feed

Data sources publishes which feeds are connected and which are not, with crawl history per feed and the number of days each rate was computed over. The freshness KPI publishes the coverage figure itself — active records verified inside the window, over all active records — with both counts shown so the division is checkable.

When a check fails

A record is not moved to closed on a single failed check. Three consecutive failures across at least 48 hours are required, because a portal being unreachable is not a programme ending. Where an entire source is failing, a circuit breaker trips and no record's status changes at all.