RG Independent Social Work Services

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RG Independent Social Work Facebook Policy

This policy explains how we will manage this page and gives advice to those who wish to talk to us through social media. We will occasionally update the information within this policy and we will let you know via a Facebook status update when we do. This account is managed by members of the Independent Social Work Team. Pos

ts and responses are on behalf of the team and should not be interpreted as responses/personal posts from individuals. Any questions or queries need to be raised via messaging us and not posting on the page. Our Facebook account is mainly monitored during office hours, Monday to Friday. If we can we will respond outside of these hours and aim to reply to questions or queries sent during evenings or at weekends as soon as possible. Sharing and posting
We will share other people’s information on our page that is pertinent e,g, news or events from our partners or those whose information we can pass on for the benefit of children, young people and adults. Occasionally, we’ll also try to lend our support to local and national campaigns. Sometimes we will repost or share information from an account that is external. This doesn’t mean that we endorse the account; we just think the information might be of interest. Please don’t be offended if we don’t repost something you ask us to: as any sharing of information could be seen as endorsement of a particular view, individual or organisation, and it’s important that we remain impartial. Moderation
Most online communities have their own rules and guidelines, which we will always follow. Where possible, we will rely on the measures of protection and intervention which the social networking site already has in place (e.g. against illegal, harmful or offensive content), for example by flagging comments or alerting them to any breaches of the site’s terms and conditions. We reserve the right to remove or ask for the removal of any contributions that we consider break the rules of the relevant community, or any of the following guidelines:
•be civil, tasteful and relevant;
•don’t post messages that are unlawful, libellous, harassing, offensive, defamatory, aggressive, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented or racially offensive;
•don’t swear;
•don’t make political comments or use RG Independent Social Work Services page for political debate;
•don’t post content copied from elsewhere, for which you do not own the copyright;
•don’t post the same message, or very similar messages, more than once (also called "spamming");
•don’t publicise your, or anyone else's, personal information, such as contact details;
•don’t advertise commercial products or services;
•don’t impersonate someone else. Unfortunately, and as a last resort, we will occasionally need to ‘block’ Facebook users and report them to Facebook if they persistently refuse to follow these guidelines and/or do not respond to requests to remove posts which fall into the categories above. Libel
Please take care not to make libellous statements. In law this means a statement that lowers the reputation of a person or organisation in the eyes of a reasonable person. By publishing such a statement we can both get into serious trouble. We will therefore take down or request you take down any statement that could be deemed to be libellous.