Communications and social media

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The Internet and mobile technologies have changed the way we live and communicate and these methods can be very helpful when communicating with your members families and confirming arrangements about activities or events. As adults in scouting we need to make the best use of these and new technologies, whilst protecting both the young people in our care and ourselves from being placed in a vulnerable position.

 

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Social networking sites and scouting

Further guidance on using social media in scouting is can be found here.

Email and text messaging guidance for leaders

Further guidance on emailing and texting young people is provided in the information sheet –‘email and text messaging guidance for leaders’ available here.