HELP CENTRE

How can we help?

Guides for every part of ARC, written for the person doing the task.

Browse by area

Eight areas covering the whole platform.

Getting started 10

Signing in, finding your way around, and your first shift on ARC.

Accept your invite Complete your staff profile Finding your way around ARC
Setting up your company 21

Homes, people, roles, designations and company-wide rules.

Add a home Add a young person Archive a young person
Daily recording 26

Logs, journals, handovers and everything written on shift.

Activities Appointments Claim extra hours or a missed call-out
Incidents & safeguarding 19

Incidents, concerns, referrals and statutory notifications.

Allegations against staff Close a safeguarding concern Complaints
The child record 18

Placements, plans, risk assessments and the timeline.

Acknowledge a risk assessment Admissions Documents on a young person's record
Reporting & inspection 8

Reports, exports, and giving an inspector time-boxed access.

For inspectors Give an inspector access Ofsted inspection records
Your data, security & AI 6

Where data is held, who can see it, and how ARC uses AI.

Data security and hosting How ARC uses AI Subject access requests

TROUBLESHOOTING

Something not working?

Most things that stop people mid-shift are permissions or a deliberate lock, not a fault. Find the symptom in your own words and see who can put it right.

My sign-in code never arrives You It says I'm not assigned to this home Your manager I'm stuck on 'complete your profile' Company admin All troubleshooting →