Council Platform 2.15 has been released, and one if its new features is the start of the Committee Management services functionality, targeted at organisations with democratic services and governance obligations.

The next release of the Platform will include a first iteration of an AI powered "Chat to website" assistant.

Lengthy forms that stretch off the page can be off-putting to users. Council Platform lets you spread a Webform over multiple pages making it easier to parse.

To improve the usability of Council Platform, we've updated the login process so that users can login using either their username or their email address.

We are pleased to report that one of our most recent websites, Greatwell Homes, has been ranked the #1 most accessible among UK Housing Authorities websites by the Silktide Index.

This release of Council Platform focuses on future-proofing. We have upgraded over 100 Drupal community modules to make them compatible with the latest version of the software the platform runs on, Drupal 11.

Foster for Plymouth is a not-for-profit fostering organisation that’s part of Plymouth City Council and the latest addition to Plymouth's suite of Council Platform's satellite websites.

As part of our work on the new Foster for Plymouth website, we've expanded the Events functionality so that sign-up forms can be attached to them.

We've extended the “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG) content editor of the Platform to support setting of the aria-label attribute for both Link and Button components. This avoids creating an accessibility issue for links with differing locations but the same link text.

The latest version of the Platform includes functionality for setting "custom thumbnails" for the "File" component of the content editor.