Parental Responsibility is important for SIMS as it is used to identify siblings.

SIMS detects students who share at least one contact that has Parental Responsibility for each student. If the Family Links has not populated then the contacts have not been added correctly. For each student or applicant record, they must have at least one of the same contact (for example, their Mother or Father).

The contact(s) must have 'Parental Responsibility' ticked for each student or applicant. Please make the necessary changes to the student or applicant records and save these. The Family Links should then populate correctly.

If the Family Links does not populate the correct students then they are likely to have separate contact records rather than the same one. Please go to Focus | Person | Contacts and search for the contact they share. If the contact has more than one record then the students are likely to be linked to different ones, you will need to change this so that only one contact record is used for the students. Duplicate records that are no longer linked to anyone can be deleted in Tools | Housekeeping | Delete Unlinked Contacts.

If the contact only has one record in SIMS and all students are linked to it then this will be due to the contact have 'Court Order' ticked. If this is correct then the Family Links will not populate. If this is incorrect as the contact isn't subject to a Court Order you will need to untick this. The Family Links will then populate.

Correspondence and Pupil Report tick boxes

The Parental Correspondence and Pupil Report flags on a contact should be set for those parents who do not live with the student and who wish to receive correspondence and/or a copy of the pupil report.

You can then produce labels/reports that include contacts that have these boxes selected. A filter could be added to this.

It will also allow you to produce labels etc for split parents so the letters go to both. is important for SIMS as it is used to identify siblings.

SIMS detects students who share at least one contact that has Parental Responsibility for each student. If the Family Links has not populated then the contacts have not been added correctly. For each student or applicant record, they must have at least one of the same contact (for example, their Mother or Father).

The contact(s) must have 'Parental Responsibility' ticked for each student or applicant. Please make the necessary changes to the student or applicant records and save these. The Family Links should then populate correctly.

If the Family Links does not populate the correct students then they are likely to have separate contact records rather than the same one. Please go to Focus | Person | Contacts and search for the contact they share. If the contact has more than one record then the students are likely to be linked to different ones, you will need to change this so that only one contact record is used for the students. Duplicate records that are no longer linked to anyone can be deleted in Tools | Housekeeping | Delete Unlinked Contacts.

If the contact only has one record in SIMS and all students are linked to it then this will be due to the contact have 'Court Order' ticked. If this is correct then the Family Links will not populate. If this is incorrect as the contact isn't subject to a Court Order you will need to untick this. The Family Links will then populate.