Responsibility and Control of www.governornet.co.uk website

Dear Mr John,

Thank you for your recent email. A reply will be sent to you as soon as
possible (where a response is required). For information, the
departmental standard for correspondence received is that responses
should be sent within 15 working days or 20 working days if you are
requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number 2009/0090474

Thank you.

Central Allocation Team

Public Communications Team

Tel: 0870 0002288
www.dcsf.gov.uk

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Mr John
Thank you for your request for information, which was received on 27
October. You requested specific information relating to the GovernorNet
website, namely:

i) Which department within the DCSF controls and maintains the website?

ii) Who are the appointed 'moderators' of the website?

iii) What rules, regulations or policy does the DSCF produce or issue in
relation to the operation, monitoring, control and censorship of the
website to the moderators?

I have dealt with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
The requested information is below information is outlined below below.

i) The Communications Directorate within the DCSF is responsible for
maintaining the GovernorNet website.

ii) The moderation of the website's discussion board is subcontracted to
Scroll LLP.

iii) The discussion boards are moderated in accordance with the discussion
board rules as set out on the board's rubric:
[1]http://www.governornet.co.uk/threadListd... and in
the additional policy document which is linked from the rubric:
[2]http://www.governornet.co.uk/linkAttachm....
Both the moderators and forum users work to these same, transparent
guidelines.

The information supplied to you is protected by the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988. Any documents produced by government officials will be
covered by Crown Copyright. You are free to use the information for your
own purposes, including any non-commercial research you are doing and for
the purposes of news reporting. Any other reuse, for example commercial
publication, would require the permission of the copyright holder and is
regulated by the Reuse of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005. You
can find details on the arrangements for re-using Crown Copyright at:

Office of Public Sector Information
Information Policy Team
Kew
Richmond
Surrey
TW9 4DU

Email: [3][email address]

Any information which is not subject to Crown Copyright continues to be
protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the
information originated. You must ensure that you gain their permission
before reproducing such information.

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consideration of your request.

If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint to the
Department, you may then contact the Information Commissioner's Office.
Yours sincerely

Chris Foster
Public Communications Unit
[4]www.dcsf.gov.uk

Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number 2009/0090474.
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