PICS 21.00.000.01 Release Notes

The following changes were made as part of PICS 21.00.000.01, as released on the 13th August 2021

New Year Features

  • Support for the 2021 ILR has been added to PICS. This includes data entry, funding calculator, ILR exporter and ILR importer in PICS and PelControl.

  • Reporting – Achievement Rates are now available which run to the 2020 ESFA QAR calculations. This includes the Reconciler tool.

  • AdHoc – Added fields for 2021/21 including Learner First / Latest Prior Attainment Level  / Applies From, Employment Status Monitoring OET.

Improvements

  • Reporting – Scheduled Auto SMS / Email - Added new report option to attempt to only use the recipient's preferred contact method and added more activity status filters.

Bug Fixes

  • REST API – Employer end point was returning wrong total number of pages when specific page sizes were requested. Now fixed.

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