The School tab includes all currently available gazetted school holiday dates for ease of reference.

 By default, the School tab shows state-gazetted school holiday dates. For children attending a private school, you can add that school so Parenting Calendar + uses its specific term dates in place of the gazetted ones.

From the School tab, click Add school. 

You can add a school’s holiday periods in one of two ways: Search for it by name, or Upload a PDF of the school's holiday schedule.

Search for a school

On the Search tab, start typing the school's name. Schools already verified by other users appear in the list, so you can select one directly. 

If the school isn't listed, Parenting Calendar + will look it up from its name and ask you to confirm the match before continuing.

Upload a PDF

If the school only publishes its dates through a parent portal (such as Compass), or you already have the holiday schedule as a PDF, use the Upload PDF tab.

Click Choose a PDF, select the file, then click Extract dates. Parenting Calendar + reads the school name, term dates, school holidays, and pupil-free days from the file.

Verify the dates

Once you have selected the school, you can then verify the holiday dates. Click Confirm all dates to accept every term break at once, or work through each term individually, using the tick to accept a holiday period or the cross to reject and adjust it.

The Done button becomes available once every holiday period has been confirmed.

Once saved, the School tab shows the school's holiday periods with a School badge. The verified private school holidays are then available when creating holiday arrangements, in the same way as gazetted dates.

From the Parents and Children tabs, you can easily edit the names of the parents and children, including the option to assign nicknames to each. When exporting the Calendar and Events list to PDF or Calendar (.ics), you can select to display these nicknames in the exported version.

 From the Children tab, you can designate a Primary Carer for each child in the scenario.

The primary carer setting determines the default care allocation for a child when no arrangement has been created for them in the current scenario. If no arrangement exists for a child, that child is automatically assigned to their primary carer, with 100% of nights attributed to that parent.

Once an arrangement is created for that child, the arrangement takes precedence and the primary carer default no longer applies.

To create an additional scenario, click the  icon next to the Scenarios heading in the left panel. Enter an optional name and click Create.

Each scenario is listed in the left panel, showing the date range, number of arrangements, and children. Click a scenario to switch to it. The currently selected scenario is highlighted and its data is reflected across the Arrangements, Calendar, and Orders tabs.

From the scenario panel, you can:

	Edit the scenario.
	Duplicate the scenario.
	Archive the scenario.
	Restore an archived scenario.

Selecting to add a new standard arrangement will open the screen for collection of details of the arrangement. 

The arrangement will default to the current calendar year with all children selected.

You can click on the dates under Period - highlighted below, to easily adjust the start and end dates of the Parenting Arrangement.

Click Next to proceed to the Division and Changeover details screen where you can Save the parenting arrangement.

Selecting to add a new holiday arrangement will open the screen for collection of details of the arrangement. 

When setting the period for a holiday arrangement, you can select directly from gazetted school holiday date ranges.

Click Next to proceed to the Division and Changeover details screen and Save the parenting arrangement

Easily link arrangements to other saved parenting arrangements in the scenario for ease of reference.

When creating or editing an arrangement from the Arrangement details screen use the ‘Which arrangements related to this one?’ field to select the related arrangement(s).

Click Next to proceed to the Division and Changeover details page to Save the linked arrangement.  

On the Division details screen, set the Rotation period and select a Preset from the dropdown to automatically populate the division grid with a standard care pattern. Individual cells in the grid can be clicked to manually adjust the care allocation for specific days.

The division grid displays a colour-coded view of the care schedule showing which parent the children will spend time with on each day. 

The person responsible for picking up/dropping off the child or children, can be determined by the location of the changeover. Half-coloured blocks on the division grid represent changeovers, for when the child or children are changing from spending time with one parent to the other parent. These are automatically filled in the presets. If you manually edit the schedule once a week is filled, the system will highlight any cells where a changeover is required. (e.g. two differently coloured blocks appear consecutively).
 
Enter in relevant details for Changeovers for parenting arrangements, with time and location.

Click Save for the parenting arrangement to display visually in the calendar.  The colours represent the time the children will spend with each parent.

Easily click on the coloured sections of the calendar to show an expanded view of the parenting arrangement in the sidebar.

From the New Event tab, you can select and enter the required information for:

• Type of event.

• Name of the event.

• Location of the event.

• The Start/End Date and Time.

• All day or recurring and the regularity of the event.

• Drop off/Pick up parent.

• Children the event is relevant to.

If required, select the green toggle and the relevant parent to Override current arrangement. If selected, the selected parent will have the priority of care for the duration of the event.

Click Save to save the event in the calendar.

At any time, you can click on an event in the Calendar to show an expanded view in the sidebar, on the right side of the screen. 

From here, you can also Edit or Delete the event, if required.

Click the Column headings to sort by Event Type, Location, Parent/Child, Start Date/Time, and whether the event is recurring.

From the Filters on top, you can filter the events by date range, type of event, and relevant parent/child.

Click on the drop-down options to easily edit an Event. Alternatively, click on the elipsis on the right-hand side to Preview, Edit or Delete the event from the Edit event window.

You can easily navigate between months in Parenting Calendar + via the left and right arrows on the top left of the screen.

You can also navigate by clicking on the month at the top of the screen and selecting a month and year of your choice.

Easily return to the current day by clicking the to return to the current month.

You can easily export the Calendar and Events List to PDF for ease of sharing.  Simply click on the button and select Export to PDF.

Configure the export using the available options, including what to include in the document (events, event list, changeovers, and title page), the export period (by date period or arrangement), and whether to display nicknames in place of full names. The live preview panel will update in real time as you adjust settings.

Click Export to PDF to generate the document to your LEAP matter correspondence.

Parenting Calendar + data can be exported as an .ics file, allowing the calendar to be imported into standard digital calendar applications, including Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, and Microsoft Outlook.

To access the Export to Calendar feature, click the icon and select Export to Calendar.

Configure the export using the available options, including what to include (events, arrangements, and changeovers), the export period, and whether to display nicknames in place of full names. Toggle By arrangement under Period to scope the export to the date range of a specific arrangement rather than a custom date range.

Click Export to generate the .ics file.

Calendar Chat allows you to ask natural language questions about the calendar for the current scenario. It is accessible from the bottom left corner of the screen across the Arrangements, Calendar, and Orders tabs.

Click the icon to open the Calendar Chat panel. You can type a question directly into the Ask about the calendar... field, or select from the suggested questions displayed in the panel.

An AI-generated written summary can be generated for any event or parenting arrangement directly from its details panel in the sidebar.

To generate a summary, open the details of a parenting arrangement or event by clicking on it from the Calendar tab and click the Summary button at the bottom of the panel.

The Questions tab guides you through a three-step questionnaire to capture the parenting arrangement instructions:

• Step 1: Parental responsibility - questions relating to parental responsibility orders, including day-to-day decisions and long-term issues.

• Step 2: Communication - questions relating to communication orders between children and parents, and between parents.

• Step 3: Other orders about time - select any additional orders to include in the parenting order, such as first right of refusal, make-up time, or suspension of time for breach.

Questions adapt based on previous answers, ensuring only relevant questions are shown. You can navigate between steps using the Back and Next buttons. 

Click Save once all three steps are complete.

The Orders tab displays a live preview of the draft Application for Consent Orders, populated with the parties' details from the matter and arrangement data from the current scenario. Use the arrows at the bottom of the preview to navigate between pages.

Click Export to Word to automatically save the document to the matter's correspondence and open it in Microsoft Word. The LEAP for Word add-in provides access to the full order clause library, allowing you to browse, preview, and insert additional clauses as needed before finalising the document.