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UK government records what happened.
It rarely records where, or which organisation.

A flood objection with no location. A billion pounds of developer money that can't be put on a map. A care company quietly running a third of a county's beds. The data exists — but two joins are missing, so nobody can use it.

UK GroundTruth adds those two joins — where and who — to data anyone can download, without an account or a fee. That single fix makes thirteen things possible that are impossible today. Every figure below is computed from published records on one machine. Nothing is estimated.

See it for your area → The thirteen systems What it cannot do
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The evidence
Thirteen findings, in numbers
Each figure is one system's headline. Click any card to see the sources, the method, and what it cannot tell you.
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Your area
One place, every system
Pick a district. Every system reports what it found there, with the coverage each figure rests on.
One place, every system
Pick a district. Each system reports what it found there, with the coverage that figure rests on.
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The thirteen
Every system, and what it found
Thirteen questions nobody can currently answer. Each runs only on data anyone can download.
All thirteen systems, with what each one found
 
What · Where · Who — compare all 13 →

The thirteen systems, and what each one found

Every figure below is computed from a published government record and carries the coverage it rests on. 13 of 13 systems have measured output; 28 of 38 registered sources returned data to an unauthenticated request on the last run. Computed 2026-09-05.

  • Catchment — School place planning at the geography that matters.

    89.6% of mainstream school places in use — 629 specialist settings over capacity

  • Sentinel — Public procurement integrity and collusion detection.

    6.2% of awards skipped open competition — across 2,203 award records

  • Highwater — Flood risk against what actually got built.

    635 permissions granted against flood advice — of 23,336 objections; 7,011 outcomes never recorded

  • Plumbline — Housing delivery measured against the real deadline.

    15.9% decided within the legal deadline — published headline is 82.8%

  • Junction — Grid connection capacity on one definition.

    937 of 6,770 capacity records actually served — 1 of 4 operators serve data openly

  • Ledger — Developer contributions traced to the site.

    £1.49bn of developer contributions recorded — 0 of 39,325 carry a location

  • Bellwether — Provider concentration in care and education.

    124 authorities depend on one care group — Welltower — 37,404 beds across 72 companies

  • Sightline — Whether expert planning advice is followed.

    177 water quality objections — none carry a recorded outcome — the field does not exist

  • Lastmile — Gigabit compliance for new homes.

    83.3% gigabit in new-build postcodes — against 83.6% everywhere else

  • Bulwark — Who owns and maintains flood defences.

    11,135 inspections overdue — maintainer known on 91% of 141,469 defences

  • Watchman — Insolvency exposure across public suppliers.

    0 exposures found in the sample — the register must accumulate before this produces signal

  • Compass — SEND demand forecast by neighbourhood.

    +127.4% growth in statutory EHC plans — 236,806 to 538,547 since 2015

  • Baseline — Sewage spills normalised for rainfall.

    300,406 spills after adjusting for monitor uptime — 291,492 reported across 14,239 outlets

Each system links to a brief setting out its sources, its method, and what it cannot tell you.

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How they connect
Two links, shared by everything
The same two joins power all thirteen. Fix them once, and one fact sets off several systems at once.
The two missing links
Every system below depends on one or both
LINK ONE · WHERE

A messy reference becomes a point on a map

“East Devon 21/0751/FUL” → property reference → coordinate. Seven of the thirteen systems cannot start without this.

 
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LINK TWO · WHO

A name becomes one identified organisation

“SOFTCAT LTD”, “Softcat plc”, “SOFTCAT PLC - FCA” → one company number. Six systems depend on it.

 
Explore organisations across systems →
The journey of a number
From a file a department published to the figure on this page. Click any stage to see what happens there — with the platform's own counts.
Where this comes from
Every figure above traces to a published file. Nothing is modelled or estimated.
 
One fact, several systems
Run against the platform's own output. A system with nothing to say is left out.
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The evidence base
Where every figure comes from
Thirty published sources, each retrieved without an account, key or fee — and the ones that failed, kept visible.
Where the systems draw from
Open data sources
Every row returned HTTP 200 to an unauthenticated request on 17 August 2026
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Honesty
What this cannot do
The limits are part of the product. A tool a civil servant can defend states plainly what it cannot answer.
What this cannot do
Sources that failed an unauthenticated request, kept visible rather than hidden

Prototype. Every figure on this page is computed on this machine from published sources, each retrieved without an account, key or fee. Nothing is modelled, estimated or filled in by hand. Source access was verified anonymously on 17 August 2026.