Assign people to homes
Give someone a home membership and a role at that home — the thing that decides what they can do there.
Being in your company is not the same as working at one of its homes. The home membership is what puts a home in someone's home switcher and decides what they can do once they are in it.
Almost everything a person can do in ARC is resolved against their role at the home they are currently in — so the same person can be a manager at one home and a staff member at another.
Assign someone
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Open the home. Sidebar, Company Admin, the Homes tile, then Manage beside the home.
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Find the Home Members card — "Assign users to this home." Everyone already assigned is listed under Current Members, each with their role on a badge. When there is nobody it reads No members assigned.
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Under Assign New Member, pick the person, then the role. The list offers company users who are not already members of this home.
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Select Assign to Home.
The roles you can pick here
| On screen | What it means at this home |
|---|---|
| Staff | The front-line baseline |
| Senior | The senior dashboard on top of that baseline |
| Manager | Manager dashboard, journal sign-off, incident review, version history |
Someone must already be a member of your company before they can be assigned. If they are not, ARC refuses with "User must be a member of the company." And a person can only hold one role per home — a second attempt is refused with "User is already assigned to this home."
Removing someone
Select Remove beside their name; ARC asks you to confirm. This takes away their membership of that home. It does not delete their account, their company membership, or anything they wrote.
Removing a home membership does not revoke a DSL designation — that is separate, and revoked from the Designated Safeguarding Leads card on the same page. See Designate a DSL.
Two things that trip people up
"My home isn't in the switcher." The switcher lists direct home memberships only. Reaching a home another way — as a company admin, for example — does not put it in the list. The fix is a real membership, assigned here.
"It says I'm not assigned to this home." A company membership with no home membership gets an account and nothing else. Assign them to a home.
Changing someone's role at a home
There is no edit control on a member row. To change a role, Remove the person and assign them again with the new one.
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