The child record

Clear the risk assessments waiting on your dashboard, and what your acknowledgement records.

Record the placement journey from planned to admitted, and work through the eight-step admission checklist.

Upload files, generate PDF exports, and understand who can see a document marked private.

Record who gave permission and on what basis — and what ARC does when there isn't an active consent.

How the home's manager deletes a plan made by mistake, what stays on record, and how to bring it back.

Where health lives in ARC — it is the Health Care Plan — and what the safety banner on the profile is telling you.

Track the statutory looked-after-child reviews, the home's contribution, and what came out of them.

Entering and checking a prescription, booking supplies in, amending the record, and reading the monthly MAR chart.

Why ARC asks you to confirm you have read a plan, and how to clear the ones waiting for you.

What a plan is in ARC, the eight types you can choose from, and how to read one.

What is in a Positive Behaviour Support plan, section by section, and how it relates to risk assessments and goals.

Write, rate and update a risk assessment against a plan, and why a manager has to approve it.

Hold the local authority's Care Plan, Placement Plan, Pathway Plan and related documents — ARC records them, it does not write them.

Compile everything ARC holds about one young person into a single audited bundle, and read it before you release it.

The chronological spine of a young person's record — what it shows, how far back it goes, and what it deliberately leaves out.

What the profile shows you before a shift, how to choose your quick links, and where each part of the record lives.

Record what a young person says they want and how they feel — in their words — and what to do when it worries you.

Create a plan, add goals, and revise it — and what a revision asks of the rest of the team.