Release notes

Release 4.3.0

Release date: July 23rd 2024

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For adopters and practitioners

• Functionality has been added to allow 'Other/Unknown' to be selected in gender fields. All searches, reports and exports have been updated to reflect the changes. 

Release 4.2.0

Release date: July 8th 2024

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For adopters and practitioners

Changes have been made to both sibling-group and family profiles;

Sibling-group profile

• Change to copy across the profile bringing it more up to date. 
• Reorder of fields in the 'About me' section
• Favourite things has been replaced with 'A day in the life' and 'Being me'. Where there was a direct link between 'Favourite things' and 'Being me' the data has been transferred. 
• 'Mental health issues' and 'Emotional difficulties' has been merged into 'Mental & emotional health needs'
• A 'Background Information' section has been added to include progress in care, Current support needs (previously behavioural difficulties), Additional support needs in a pre-school setting (previously Special educational needs), and EHCP, IDP statement of educational needs or co-ordinated support plan. 
• Family sought section, a new field for 'Adoption support package' has been added, and  gender preference, min/max age preference have been removed. 
  
  

Adopter profile 

• Change to copy across the profile bringing it more up to date.
• Favourite things - the individual fields have been changed to one text field. 
• Health and Development section - fields have been changed to dropdown selects. 
  
  

Release 4.1.0

Release date: June 27th 2024

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For all users 

• Added a new hidden reason of 'Early-permanence placement' for all profile types.

For practitioners

• Added functionality so that when a child is 'Unborn' the date entered care is no longer a required field on the profile. 
• The legal status of 'Interim care order (section 38) for England and Wales has been added as an option for legal status on a sibling-group profile.  
• The option to download profile data exports that contain profile identifiers has been extended to all report types. 

Letter Swap

For team members

• The default for 'view content' on creation of a letterbox has been changed to yes. 
• Fixed a bug on a letterbox creation where the phone number for birth family members was a required field. 
• Added functionality on letterbox creation where there is only one child on the case, the child field is completed automatically.

Release 4.0.0

Release date: May 19th 2024

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For Practitioners 

• Fixed a bug where events created in Agency portals were not displaying. 
• Added functionality so that managers of regional groups can view encrypted content for all organisations within the group. 

Release 3.6.0

Release date: March 21st 2024

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Family users 

• Fixed a bug where families had selected not to receive email notifications for enquiry activity were not able to end a discussion. 

Practitioner users

• Fixed a bug where a message sent when placing an enquiry in reserve was not showing to practitioners. 
• Fixed a bug where using the 'family make-up' search criteria in advanced searches for families was giving incomplete results. 
• Added an indicator on the search page for families to show if they are 'Approved' or 'In Assessment'.

Letter Swap

All users 

• Implemented a new communication form, allowing users to attach permitted media types (images, documents, videos and voice messages) to the communication. 

Team members 

• Implemented additional validation on the email field for adoptive and birth family members to strip out leading of trailing spaces. 
• Fixed a bug where when Organisations were sending communication on behalf of a family member the Organisation was showing as the sender of the communication. 

Release 3.5.0

Release date: February 9th 2024

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All users

A reason of 'Early-permanence placement' has been added to the options when deleting a profile as matched elsewhere.

ARW

Option of 'none' in relation to  contact/maintaining relationships has been removed for families.

Release 3.4.0

Release date: January 18th 2024

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All users

• Nationality’ added to both sibling-group and family profiles. This includes filters under ‘Advanced Search’ on the Children and Adopters search pages, and in profile alerts. ‘Nationality’ fields have also been added to profile data exports.
• On adopter profile under Heath and Development, ‘Further details’ is now a required field when ‘Would discuss’ , ‘Willing’ or ‘Particularly able’ is selected.
• Added functionality to allow users to ‘Acknowledge’ and expression of interest. ‘Acknowledging’ an expression of interest will send an email acknowledgement to the opposite party advising them you will commit to a response within 28 days of the expression of interest.
• Added functionality to allow an ‘Urgent’ message to be sent when sending a message or expressing interest on behalf of a sibling group looking for an ‘Early Permanence’ placement.
• Fixed a bug where when editing a thumbnail image the details were not always saved.

Letter Swap

Families

• Functionality introduced to notify families when a communication has been approved by an organisation.
  

Release 3.3.0

Release date: November 16th 2023

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All users

• Upgraded existing profile videos to new improved format.
  

Release 3.2.0

Release date: October 31st 2023

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Families

• Fixed a bug where in some instances Early Permanence was not an option for some families at registration. All Practitioners
• Fixed a bug where, within an enquiry, when the child and family were from the same organisation practitioners were not receiving notifications for new messages and documents.

Letter Swap

All users

• Functionality added to allow users to receive SMS text alerts in addition to email.
• Fixed a bug where a saved draft was incorrectly showing as the last activity on a letterbox. Team members
• ‘Settling In’ communication added.
  

Release 3.1.1

Release date: October 12th 2023

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All users

• Fixed a bug that prevented saving changes when editing a profile picture.
• Fixed a bug where users were not able to set main profile picture.

All practitioners

• Enhancements have been made to the ‘hidden’ profile reasons for both sibling-groups and families making the reasons more specific. Appropriate changes have been made to the waiting filter.
• Implemented changes to allow Regional Group managers to make changes to ‘national access’ levels for families.

For practitioners at ARW

• The hidden reason of ‘On hold: other’ has been removed for sibling-groups.

Letter Swap

All users

Implemented functionality for messaging allowing users to create bold and italic text, add links and emojis.

Team members

• Implemented a confirmation screen after the creation of a letterbox allowing team members to double check the details of adoptive families and birth family members to ensure no mistakes have been made during entry.
• Fixed a bug where in certain circumstances the communications in a letterbox were not visible to team members.