When a contact is deleted in Reach, they are not 100% deleted, they are hidden/archived. Reach does not delete contact data, so that a complete history for a student can be recovered at any time in the future, if required. For simplicity, these archived profiles are refer to as deleted contacts because they are not visible in your portal.
The ability to delete and/or recover deleted contacts is not available to all users, this is set by your schools Reach Administrator.
Deleting contacts is simply a matter of opening the user's profile in the People Management > View Contacts screen and clicking on the Delete button, or by setting their Deleted field to "Yes" and save changes. Once deleted a contact will no longer be visible in Reach.
When deleting a student, it is advised to also delete the student's parents or associated hosts or guardians no longer required.
Be sure not to delete hosts/guardians that are connected to multiple students. This is easily viewed in the individual profile, Associations Tab.
A brief overview;
Reviewing and recovering deleted contacts is done via People Management >> Deleted Contacts.
In the Deleted Contacts dialogue you can search for any criteria of a deleted user and any matching records will be displayed in a list below the search dialogue.
Opening the profile of a deleted contact will allow you to reset their Deleted Status to NO, in order to reactivate the profile.