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Requirement

7.0.4.12. Chat options should be disabled

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This may not apply to you. You have not answered "What is the technology being used for?" yet. Answer it and this step will either settle or drop off.

To prevent one-on-one contact with Scouts. A Youth Protection rule wearing the clothes of a software setting, and one that has to be found in the host controls before the session starts.

Warning. A Youth Protection rule in the shape of a software setting. Chat should be disabled to prevent one-on-one contact with Scouts, and in most platforms that is a host control set before the meeting starts, not something that can be fixed once people are in the room.

Where this step comes from

  1. Guide to Advancement (2025), Section 7.0.4.12 · Chat options should be disabled, to prevent one-on-one contact with Scouts.

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