Wallace Well Church linked with St George's Tron are committed to ensuring church activities follow good practice. This includes collecting information and adherence to safe storage guidelines as outlined in the Good Practice Guidelines for use of photography/video within the Church of Scotland.
A congregation must seek child and parental/carer consent for the use of internettechnology. Before communicating using social media applications, taking a photograph, video, audio recording, or using any information about a young person (under the age of 16) or vulnerable adult for the purposes of a Church of Scotland activity, written consent should be obtained from a parent or guardian.
The parent or guardian must be informed of the purposes for which the media (photograph, video, audio recording, etc) and/or information will be used and asked to give their permission. The parent or guardian must be informed of the purpose for communicating, providing resources, activities, groups via social media applications and asked to give their permission. The Church of Scotland Safeguarding Service updated Social Media guidance provides information on when information will be logged/recorded for safeguarding purposes. Some media applications have the ability to record, all meeting hosts must ensurethat recording is disabled in all cases. The parent or guardian must also be informed as to whether the media or information will be used for marketing purposes and given the opportunity to “opt out” of this purpose if they wish.
If such material involves those over 16 and/or non-vulnerable adults, and will be made publically available (eg from a website), written consent should also be obtained using the template consent form available from the Church of Scotland website: http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/resources/law_circulars#data_protection) Consent I hereby authorise the 2 congregations who form the Wallace Well team to publish the following media/information about the below named young person/vulnerable adult: (please select all that apply)