# Enhancements to OR UK - Proposal to add Assurer email address

**URL:** <https://forum.openreferral.org/t/enhancements-to-or-uk-proposal-to-add-assurer-email-address/123>\
**Category:** Adoption\
**Tags:** datastructure, minor-upgrade\
**Created:** [July 12, 2021, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/enhancements-to-or-uk-proposal-to-add-assurer-email-address/123 "2021-07-12T10:19:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ian-DigitalGaps](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openreferral.org/ian-digitalgaps/32/22_2.png) [@Ian-DigitalGaps](https://forum.openreferral.org/u/Ian-DigitalGaps)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/enhancements-to-or-uk-proposal-to-add-assurer-email-address/123/1 "2021-07-12T10:19:03Z")

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Proposal to add Assurer email address

We think it is a useful enhancement to include the email address of the accountable assurer of the service i.e. the person/organisation carrying out the assurance on the last\_assured\_date. This allows a consuming application to notify an assurer directly that they have found an error.

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**Author:** ![MikeThacker-iStandUK](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openreferral.org/mikethacker-istanduk/32/8_2.png) [@MikeThacker-iStandUK](https://forum.openreferral.org/u/MikeThacker-iStandUK)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/enhancements-to-or-uk-proposal-to-add-assurer-email-address/123/2 "2022-02-14T13:13:51Z")

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I’m logging this as a proposed change in the next version. It would be good to have views on if there should be a link to the assuring organization as well or instead.

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**Author:** ![Ian-DigitalGaps](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openreferral.org/ian-digitalgaps/32/22_2.png) [@Ian-DigitalGaps](https://forum.openreferral.org/u/Ian-DigitalGaps)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/enhancements-to-or-uk-proposal-to-add-assurer-email-address/123/3 "2022-02-24T16:26:48Z")

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I think the email domain will help with who the organisation is and of course they could use a general email address rather than a named individual.  
I guess your case is when you can’t tell the organisation taking responsibility from the email address but i think adding an organisation will be too easy for someone to pretend they are part of that organisation so personally i wouldn’t trust them. i think i would look for an email domain that i trusted.  
Places could publish a register of approved assurer domains to help users confidence.