Staying Safe And Safeguarding
We know that young people learn by doing. Activities encourage the development of young people and they can feel a huge sense of achievement in completing them. We want to provide EXCITEMENT, but not DANGER. ADVENTURE, but not HAZARD.
Assessing risk starts in the early stages of activity planning and goes on throughout the activity, until all participants go home at the end of the activity.
Everyone has a part to play in assessing and managing risk. All adults have a role to play in keeping Scouts a safe place for our members and achieve this by working together and cooperating. Make sure that everyone understands the role they play and that young people understand how they can help keep Scouts safe for themselves and others.
Our Health and Safety Policy and Safeguarding Policy provide frameworks for everyone who participates in our activities and uses our resources.
The Scouts provide safety training for all adults which includes support in undertaking risk assessment. This is also reinforced in other more specialist and role specific training.