If you think the word ’scout’ is generic, think carefully before coining your group using the word ’scout’ or you might end up in trouble just like this Mountain View dad in US.
A Mountain View father lost a bid in federal court in San Francisco on Tuesday to use the name “Youthscouts” for a youth [...]
Can there be a youth left in Britain who doesn’t know how to roll on a condom, or that having sex without contraception is liable to result in babies? Such is the prevalence of sex education in schools that it seems to me that any British teenager, unless educated at home and a member of [...]
The police Youth Organisations in Uniform scheme has been launched across London following its success in Croydon despite being snubbed by Met Commissioner Sir Ian Blair. The YOU scheme was given its London launch at the Whitgift Centre at 1pm but Sir Ian wasn’t there, despite telling organisers he would be.
The scheme had earlier been [...]
Knife-carrying yobs will be offered the choice between a criminal record or signing up for a three-month stint in the Scouts as part of a new scheme. The project, which will be launched next week, will allow teens arrested for crimes including robbery, burglary, and assault to join the organisation and avoid a criminal conviction.
Even [...]
The first headmaster of Stowe school, J F Roxburgh, declared his goal to be turning out young men who would be “acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck”. A mixture of courtesy and courage used to be essential to the idea of a British citizen’s character. Brits were the sort of people who [...]
A ROCK band performing in front of 8,000 scouts were hauled off stage after they turned the air blue with a string of four-letter obscenities.
Organisers of the Essex International Scout Jamboree persuaded Missing Andy to tone down some of their risque lyrics before they performed their set.
But they were left shocked and stunned when lead [...]
Girls as young as 10 are suffering stress, anxiety and unhappiness as they struggle to cope with the pressures of growing up, according to research published today. Dr Andrew McCulloch, chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation, said: “Girls and young women are being forced to grow up at an unnatural pace in a society [...]
I needed to tie a rope to the fancy new anchor I bought for my dented, old 12-foot aluminum rowboat. Turns out my search for the right knot led me to pondering sexual politics and religious freedom. I wanted to fashion a blow-line knot - a good, strong knot - so I pulled from the [...]
International Scout and Girl Guide jamborees are being exploited for illegal immigration. Six Scouts are still missing after attending the 21st World Scout Jamboree near Chelmsford, Essex, last summer. They are believed to have remained in the country illegally. Five Kenyan Girl Guides also vanished after attending an international jamboree in Ireland last July. There [...]
Scouts and Girl Guides are open to pre-marital sex, drugs and gay experiences, according to a new survey. More than 2,500 Scouts from across Europe, aged between 16 and 22, were questioned by researchers as they attended a convention in Italy.
The results might have surprised Lord Baden-Powell, who founded the Scouting and Guiding movement more [...]
