1. Members of Southern Sydney Community Care Intranet (SSCCI) will be organisations and their projects/services that fulfill the following criteria:

• auspice/manage community care projects/services funded through HACC, CSTDA/DSP, National Respite for Carers or the Enhanced Primary Care Program or have as their primary client target group at least one of the following: people with disability, frail aged, carers or providers of community care services to these groups and participant in Sutherland Shire HACC Forum or St George HACC Forum; and
• have as the area of coverage for these projects/services suburbs within or encompassing Sutherland Shire and St George local government areas.
• be government funders or peak representatives of the above

2. All organisations will be required to submit the following application to the Intranet Management Group (IMG) for membership consideration.

3. There will be two listings of members for/within the SSCCI:

• Organisations: this must be the auspicing body (ie. the organisation that signs the funding agreement); for some large organisations, this may be a recognised section/hub that has its own title and manager (eg. Wesley Home Care, Wesley Disability); and
• Projects/services: each individual community care service unit covering Sutherland Shire and/or St George LGAs (ie. each project listed on the funding agreement by 'service type' and having its own co-ordinator); services outside of the area or community care may be listed in 'Organisation Description' on the Organisations list, but will not be registered as members.

4. Organisations/services/individuals have the right to appeal refusal of membership. Appeals must be addressed to the Intranet Management Group (IMG). A decision relating to an appeal will be made within 28 days and provided in writing.

5. When approving membership applications, the Intranet Management Group (IMG) will initially allocate membership (ie. a username and password for access) with either of two authorisations:

• Intranet Administrator: automatically granted to the Organisation manager/contact
• Service Co-ordinator: all other Project/ Service co-ordinators

As described in Understanding Your Role (document available to all members on the Intranet), the Intranet Administrator can then re-allocate authorisations as desired by the organisation and alter and update user names as required.

6. Member organisations are responsible to ensure all information posted by their staff is accurate and current and does not breach legislative obligations in relation to EEO, Anti-Discrimination Act, Duty of Care obligations, Privacy Act or copyright.

7. Member organisations are responsible to ensure their allocated passwords remain secure; they should only to be disclosed to authorised individuals.

8. Items submitted to the SSCCI must pertain to servicing people with disability, frail aged, carers or providers of community care services to these groups.

9. Items may be edited by the Intranet Management Group (IMG), who have the discretion to delete items considered to be inappropriate. Appeals must be lodged with the IMG in writing. These will be responded to within 28 days, in writing.