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Youth Protection
Six Online Training Courses Every Scouter Should Take
In addition to the program-oriented courses offered through MyScouting.org completing these six online training courses are a worthwhile way for any Scouter to improve their safety IQ. As a young Scoutmaster I felt a lot of these things were limitations, but now I don’t see these safety practices as restrictive. Quite to the contrary I […]
Ineligible Volunteer Files Released
As the contents of the ineligible volunteer files released recently come to light Scouting volunteers and the families that they serve will be justifiably upset and unsettled. They will ask questions. They will want to know that their children are safe. The files record reports of incidents of abuse and served as a database of people deemed ineligible […]
Reporting Child Abuse a Moral Obligation
As an adult volunteer in Scouting how would you react if you were made aware of suspected abuse? As the Penn State investigations proceed they reveal more about how the administration of the school handled reports of abuse for which the perpetrator now stands convicted. Administrators chose not go to the authorities with reports of […]
