Has your setting established a clear policy about staff's use of social networking sites in terms of confidentiality about your nursery, parents and children, and about the inadvisability of becoming 'friends' with parents?
With millions of UK members of Facebook, the most popular site, this is an issue that cannot be avoided.
The problem for the early years sector is that, on the whole, it is the more senior staff who are likely to steer clear of social networking sites and therefore to be uncertain about the potential difficulties that can arise. They may have got to grips with e-mail and using websites to access information, but social networking can remain territory into which they do not wish to venture!
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