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# Month & Week Ranges
Some information needs to be collected on a monthly basis in the system.
Other information needs to be filled in weekly, or daily.
And to make it even more complicated, sometimes information is filled in as it arises.
Guardian Care Governance deals with all these different ranges, and you should be familiar with how they are defined.
#### Monthly Data Collection
In some screens, you will notice there is a Month Selector in the screen. For information that is collected on a monthly basis (usually just once per month), and for your monthly reports, you should select the month range you wish to work with.
Changing the month in this selector retrieves all the documents relevant to this month and year for the selected care home. You should make sure that you are always using the correct month for the info you wish to submit/view.
#### Weekly Data Collection
Some data is collected weekly. Now, because some months have 4 weeks and others have 5 weeks in the month, weeks are measured as starting on a particular day of the week (usually monday each week). So if the start of the week is monday, then the first week of a specific month is counted as the first monday of the month.
Example:
If the first monday of May 2026 was the 4th May:
* the first week will run 4 May to 10 May.
* the second week covers the dates 11 May - 17 May
* the third week covers the dates 18 - 24 May
* the fourth week covers the dates 25 May - 31 May
* there is no fifth week, as June starts on the 1st.
However, had the final week gone into the following month, then the few days at the start of the next month would still be counted as part of the final week of the current one.
{% hint style="info" %}
Where weekly data needs to be collected, you will normally only be able to enter information at the correct time. Sometimes data needs to be entered AFTER that week has been completed.
{% endhint %}
#### Daily Data Collection
Sometimes you may have to fill in a form for every day of the month. The system will automatically work out how many days are in that month, and assign the required number accurately.
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