Community Services Statistics, January 2023

This month’s publication is the first to include CSDS 1.6 data for both primary and refresh, for more information, please see the Dataset versions explained page.

A recent code review has revealed that the underlying code for the Service Type measures included in the main csv does not wholly match the methodology described in the publication.  The values historically published included non-within month data and contacts may not have been unique.  Initial investigations show national levels for this measure should have been about 2% lower.  This percentage increases at lower levels of the hierarchy due to the influence of small numbers.

Service Type data in this publication has been fixed, however, comparisons with historic values of this data should be treated with caution until these have also been retrospectively corrected.

Since the migration to CSDS v1.6 the ASQ measures that usually appear in the health visiting csv file have failed to generate.  We are looking to rectify this issue soon and files will be updated to this and last month's publication.