diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 71012bf..924bf99 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: sssstats
 Title: Functions for Social Security Scotland Statisticians
-Version: 0.1.0
+Version: 0.2.0
 Authors@R: 
     person("Izaak", "Jephson", , "izaak.jephson@socialsecurity.gov.scot", role = c("aut", "cre"))
 Description: Useful helper functions designed for use in Social Security
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Imports:
     jsonlite,
     lubridate,
     magrittr,
-    opendatascot,
+    opendatascot (>= 0.0.0.9000),
     openxlsx,
     purrr,
     readr,
@@ -37,3 +37,5 @@ Config/testthat/edition: 3
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
 RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
+Remotes:  
+    github::ScotGovAnalysis/opendatascot
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..670e20b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# sssstats 0.2.0
+
+* The following new functions have been introduced:
+
+  * `get_datazone_lookup()` for creating the data zone lookup from statistics.gov.scot
+  * `get_simd_lookup()` for creating the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation lookup (2011 data zone based) from statistics.gov.scot
+  * `get_sspl_lookup()` for reading in (a local CSV file of) the Scottish Statistics Postcode Lookup published by National Records of Scotland
+  * `add_geography()` for adding geography fields into data extracts used for all Social Security Scotland's official statistics publications.
+  
+  See function documentation for further information.
+  
+* Removes a dependency on the `config` R package
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-add_geography.R b/tests/testthat/test-add_geography.R
index 03d1c11..5e24a9c 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-add_geography.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-add_geography.R
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 test_that("add_geography works", {
+  # `get_datazone_lookup()` relies on a live SPARQL endpoint and then downloads
+  # the file from its URL -- this would fail some GitHub Actions for R. So,
+  # skipping CI if it comes to this.
+  testthat::skip_on_ci()
+  
   # first collect all the lookups
   file_path <- testthat::test_path("sspl_data", "singlerecord_mock.csv")
 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-get_datazone_lookup.R b/tests/testthat/test-get_datazone_lookup.R
index fc65abe..55b01fa 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-get_datazone_lookup.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-get_datazone_lookup.R
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 test_that("data zone lookup works", {
+  # `get_datazone_lookup()` relies on a live SPARQL endpoint and then downloads
+  # the file from its URL -- this would fail some GitHub Actions for R. So,
+  # skipping CI if it comes to this.
+  testthat::skip_on_ci()
+
   dz_2011_lookup <- get_datazone_lookup("2011")
   dz_2022_lookup <- get_datazone_lookup("2022")
 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-get_simd_lookup.R b/tests/testthat/test-get_simd_lookup.R
index e09c339..69cc5ba 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-get_simd_lookup.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-get_simd_lookup.R
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 test_that("lookup table for simd made", {
+  # `get_simd_lookup()` relies on a live SPARQL endpoint and then downloads
+  # the file from its URL -- this would fail some GitHub Actions for R. So,
+  # skipping CI if it comes to this.
+  testthat::skip_on_ci()
+
   simd_data <- get_simd_lookup()
 
   # check if result is a dataframe