Guiders Staff Room Part 3

I've heard that the new Rangers should be available from Jan that means Feb then. We've got a few girls waiting for it as they started at the beginning of the year but didn't want to get the old one for just a few months

Rangers' new uniform ... totally unavailable www.girlguidingshop.co.uk/products/rangers/uniform/rangers-polo-shirt--5027fam Some very poor planning somewhere

Thanks Grooved, that would explain it! I'll continue hunting for the current/old uniform then.

I'm probably not allowed on this thread as my YL qualification is over 20 years old but... DD1 has just progressed to the Senior Section and needs a uniform. I feel as though I'm being really dense because I can't find anywhere that stocks the hoodies and polo shirts in anything smaller than a size 20. She's a slim 14-yr-old who wears an adult 4/6 so a 20 will drown her. Is there a known uniform supply issue? Or a secret stockist? Please help - she's ready to be enrolled but would like to dress the part.

So does it seem that most people here use a group email address (separate from the GO system), to email parents?
Yes we have a unit email address that all leaders can access too - and judging by a recent post on one of the FB groups, so do most units. We just asked all parents to sign a permission thing if we could store their email address at the start of the year. Luckily they all said yes!

Yes. A home contact is needed for all trips away from the meeting place, as I understand. In addition, the home contact must be a member with minimum level (1- but not sure, I always use another leader) safe guarding

We did when we had "a team", but with just me I have been a bit lax.

So does it seem that most people here use a group email address (separate from the GO system), to email parents?

Have just found out that Girlguiding Staffordshire and Girlguiding Leicester have their own smart phone apps , available on iTunes!

That too! I've set it up as a group, so if Brownies is typed into the BCC bar everyone can be added at once, leaders & girls (OK, their parents). It's quite odd to receive an email that you've not sent!

It is also more handy if you are a team and you can share an email.

Yes, it would. But given that emailing from GO is very clunky, especially with attachments, it's the safest way, so long as every safeguard that I can is applied. I'd rather this way then everything coming through my personal email.

@InflagranteDelicto I do similar but the fact remains that if you tried to email a parent now, even if they'd left, our current parents that haven't given permission for storage, your email program will probably have it still.

I have an email account just for my unit. I keep the parents email in there only while the child is in Brownies, then it gets deleted. Everything else is kept in GO.

Have a look at the starting forms. They have been updated to include communication too.

Exactly Groovee. But you can't actually delete the parents' email addresses even if you delete the content of all emails.

I have I estimate at least 100,000 emails in my work email program. Despite none of them signing up to any kind of agreement, I've not emailed any one of them to ask if they agree to me having their email in a program. My employer is very large and on the ball. GG have been known to get many things wrong in the past, and they haven't indicated any way to get rid of phone numbers or email addresses from sent or received messages or from your email program. They have a long record of not thinking things through and this is one of those things.

New leaders in training should be getting this info from their training sessions and their mentors. That's what the mentors are for.

There are a lot of myths out there about GDPR. Use the GG website to find GG's requirements and ask your mentor.

That's not what I was told today spouse.

I use personal data for work and no, you don't have to ask every individual for explicit permission, as long as you publish your policy, tell people how to remove their info, there are a few other things you have to do.

So on some work databases that I'm on - some of them have carried on as is but sent out a statement, but one deleted the whole thing and started from scratch - because the owner didn't understand the regulations.

And it is pretty much literally impossible to remove an email address from an email program that's used it.

That is allowed.
Our unit asks all parents to sign a permission slip once a year, giving us permission to store their contact numbers and emails.

The big thing about GDPR is the permission.
As long as you have explicit permission to use personal data for something, that's ok.

Good timing Herat. So can we gain explicit permission from the parents or is that disallowed?