Safeguarding yourself Guidance on the personal use of social networking sites for adults working with children, young people and vulnerable adults

 

Due to the increasing personal use of social networking sites, staff and volunteers within the children or vulnerable adult workforce should be aware of the impact of their personal use upon their professional position. 

 

In practice, anything posted on the internet will be there forever and is no longer in your control. Remember when something is on the internet even if you remove it, it may have already been “snapshotted” by a “web crawler” and so will always be there.Current and future employers and service users may see this.

 

Keep all professional work completely separate from your private life. The following guidance, in addition to the above, will help to safeguard those working in a position of trust from allegations, protect your privacy, and safeguard vulnerable groups. Failure to comply with the following may result in organisations taking disciplinary action.

 

 

The Safe Social Networking factsheet outlines simple but effective ways of staying safe simply click on the highlighted wording for the full guide.