The standards used to separate sourced facts, explanatory guidance, provider claims, corrections, and independent editorial decisions.
Accuracy before completeness
The directory prefers a clearly attributed, limited record to a complete-looking record built from assumptions. Editors should not infer services, availability, price, quality, accessibility, ownership, certification, or funding participation from a facility name, category, marketing statement, or another jurisdiction’s terminology.
Independence and conflicts
Listing inclusion, ordering, corrections, and source descriptions should follow documented rules regardless of commercial relationship. A facility claim or enquiry does not establish endorsement. Material sponsorship, affiliate arrangements, or paid placement must be disclosed prominently if a site owner introduces them.
Sensitive subjects
Guidance explains research steps and jurisdiction differences but does not provide medical, legal, financial, insurance, safeguarding, or placement advice. Editors should direct readers to qualified professionals and official emergency, complaints, safeguarding, and regulator channels when appropriate.
Updates
Substantive corrections should be checked against authoritative evidence and dated. When evidence conflicts, retain the most defensible sourced statement, describe uncertainty plainly, or remove the disputed field until it can be verified.