They are renowned for always being prepared, but new Scout Association guidelines will see leaders ensuring teenage members are not only informed about slip knots and camp fires, but about sexual health too as REBECCA GOUGH reports.
It is with great interest that I read the two articles appearing in the ‘World View’ section of ‘The Island’ paper on October 20/21, 2008 under the above title. My curiosity was aroused since I have been a scout from my early days.
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 [...]
