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Childminding: Social media awareness
This badge demonstrates an understanding of the public face of business and the safe use of social media.
Social media and websites are an effective and affordable method of promoting your service. However, you must be able to demonstrate that you are maintaining confidentiality regarding children and families in your care and are demonstrating a professional attitude to your business.
To be awarded this badge you will need to be able to show a dedicated social media account or webpage advertising and describing your services. You should be able to show how your page presents the professional service you offer, contact information and where necessary your accreditation.
Remember, this is like a first meeting with a parent. What they see and read will form their opinion of your services. At a very basic level, branding is about how we want a potential customer to feel and what we want them to think. You should also be able demonstrate that you are aware of privacy and safeguarding issues by describing the arrangements you make for different types of information.
To earn this badge you will need to provide:
- a screen shot and description of any public access social media or website which demonstrates generic information about your service only
- a screen shot and description of how you ensure that your social media sites are private if you are sharing any information regarding children in your care
- provide the information referred to under the evidence heading below.
There are no prerequisites for this badge. However, you may find the following information pack from Donegal County Childcare Committee (DCCC) useful:
To demonstrate that you understand the privacy issues regarding the use of social media you should include a description of the settings you use and explain how they share information to the public or keep it private as appropriate.
To demonstrate that you understand the privacy issues regarding photographs of children in your care and that where necessary you have sought consent or used stock photos you should show an example of a consent form (with details removed) and a link to the web page or social media account.
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Your evidence, name, and email address will be sent to the organisation who issue this badge