For example:
- a large care provider might have a head office with numerous individual care homes in different parts of the country.
- a local authority's adult services may have a headquarter with a network of area offices and direct care providing services.
NMDS-SC Online allows organisations with such hierarchical structures to set up a parent and subsidiary structure for their data. This means that the data from NMDS-SC returns from individual subsidiary establishments are linked together so that the parent can see NMDS-SC informationon all of them.
Note that currently only a 2 - tier structure is available.
Note also that our use of the term "subsidiary establishment" does not imply a subsidiary corporate structure in the legal sense, but merely an establishment which is part of a larger organisation and is linked to and receives direction from a central direction HQ or head office.