Following a year long consultation process and six month trial in three Counties, we are delighted to inform you of the improvements to the Home Contact System. The updated system is known as InTouch and will be replacing Home Contact between now and 1st September 2010.
InTouch is designed to give much more flexibility to Leaders in putting together the most effective and useful system of communications for all events and activities they run, including recognising the different communication methods that are available. The main difference is that there will no longer be a ‘Home Contact’ required to sit at home next to the phone for all events, although it is still possible to use a third party to manage communications if this is deemed the most sensible way by the Leader in charge.
Full details of InTouch can be found at In Touch This webpage is available for all to view as of now, but has currently only been publicised to Commissioners and Group Scout Leaders. This will also be communicated to County Training Managers shortly due to the effect this will have on training new Leaders. It will then be widely publicised to the Movement in Scouting+ at the end of November, and in the December / January Scouting magazine. Each District Commissioner (and County Commissioner for County units such as Networks and Scout Active Support Units) can then decide when their District will move over to InTouch between now and 1st September 2010. There is a presentation available on the webpage to help launch this locally if required.
We hope that InTouch is as popular with your Leaders as it has been with the Leaders in the trial Counties and proves to be a useful tool in helping them ease the pressures in running events and activities within Scouting.
