{"content":{"layouts":[{"type":"singleColumn","areas":[{"items":[{"gridType":"RichTextBlock","content":"\u003Cp\u003EThe past year has been one of deep reflection and significant change regarding safety in Scouts. So, in this section, we\u2019re seeking to explain what we\u2019ve learned and how we\u2019ve progressed. This annual review\u2019s more extensive focus on safety should provide the foundation for a dedicated review, solely focused on safety, in the years to come.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat follows is an overview of how Scouts works, regarding safety. It\u2019s designed to help everyone in our movement understand what we all need to do to keep our young people, volunteers, and staff, healthy and safe. Ours is a continuous journey of operational improvement around safety.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA big part of what we\u2019ve learned is to be more open. So, we\u2019re sharing the lessons we\u2019ve learned, the improvements we\u2019ve made, and recognising the work we still need to do.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn April 2024, as part of concluding the inquest into the tragic death of an Explorer Scout, a Prevention of Future Deaths report was published. Scouts accepted HM Coroner\u2019s observations and made a set of commitments.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThese commitments included reviewing our safety policies and practices, working with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), developing and delivering new safety learning for volunteers, reviewing and reflecting on our internal permit schemes for Adventurous Activities and Nights Away, and much more.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOur commitment to improving safety includes increasing our safety related support for the movement. With this in mind, alongside managing safety incidents, our Safety Team has increased site visits, to give their expert \u2018on the ground\u2019 support.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Safety sub-committee of our Board of Trustees, has focused on critical root cause analysis, supported by new members with expertise in equivalently complex settings. Risk considerations are being incorporated into decisions at every level, so a golden thread of safety runs through everything we do.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EAim\u003C/h3\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ETo empower those with operational responsibilities for safety by supporting them as they deliver safe activities for our young people, through new learning, guidance, and support.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ETo provide young people with learning opportunities through a wide range of adventurous activities, where risk is appropriately managed.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ETo supporting young people, adult volunteers, and staff as they develop their understanding of risks and how these can be managed.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo support these aims, Scouts\u2019 National Safety Team, and a growing network of County safety advisors, will offer advice, guidance, information, and training to those in leadership roles.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EGoals\u003C/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBy April 2026, we\u2019ll:\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ESupport those in senior leadership roles as they\u2019re continuously trained in line with the best safety practice standards. This\u2019ll help them to provide the robust oversight needed to continue to lead our movement safely.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EDeliver, and further embed, the changes we\u2019ve made in response to HM Coroners\u2019 Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) Report.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EReview and strengthen Scouts\u2019 safety management system, considering the learning we\u2019ve gained from external reviews, reports, and the varied experiences of our movement.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ESupport our leaders, volunteers, and staff as they empower young people (and those they influence) to make sound risk-based choices.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EHelp young people, as part of their experience in our programme, to make good risk-based decisions.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EEstablish an enhanced approach to assurance.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EProgress a year on\u003C/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOur progress and learning this year has been strongly shaped by our 24 commitments responding to the observations made by HM Coroner, following the inquest into the tragic death of an Explorer Scout. These commitments included promising to openly share our progress. Full quarterly reports, including the lessons we\u2019ve learned and the actions we\u2019ve taken, are available on scouts.org.uk.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ESafety through our governance: Scouts introduced a series of new governance approaches including a dedicated sub-group of our Trustee Board, led by our Chair, to oversee the delivery of our commitments. This involved engagement across our movement, sharing the changes we planned to make and the reasons behind them.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWe developed and adopted a new Duty of Candour Policy, which was approved and implemented by our Board of Trustees from July 2024.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EScouts developed new policy and procedures for how we manage critical incidents, for testing and adoption in summer 2025.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWe made sure our Safety Policy was externally reviewed. This process shows our commitment to safety and underlines the expectation that everyone in Scouts plays their part in keeping young people safe.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWe added to our Safety Committee\u2019s capabilities by recruiting two new independent members. Their role is to scrutinise and challenge our movement\u2019s actions on safety.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThe addition of these new members, with their strong credentials in complex safety environments, significantly enhances the committee\u2019s expertise.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EScouts appointed the first UK Lead Volunteer with a focus on safety to complement the professional safety expertise of the staff team.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWe increased our investment in a national support network for volunteers, including a staff Safety Team that works in partnership with volunteers; with oversight from the Safety Committee. Together, they\u2019re establishing clearer governance pathways for direction setting, assurance, and leadership. This clarity of communication is essential as we continue to transform how we progress our safety practices.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EExternal review and scrutiny\u003C/h3\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EScouts appointed a panel, with strong credentials in senior investigatory and safety work, to complete a Fatal Accident Investigation into an Explorer Scout\u2019s tragic death in 2018. We accepted all findings from the first phase of the investigation. We\u2019re implementing the panel\u2019s recommendations and learnings across our movement. We\u2019ve since commissioned this independent panel to undertake a review of the key decisions made by Scouts directly following the tragedy.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWe established a relationship with The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) who supported us with:\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EA review of policies, procedures, and arrangements within Scouts, including the annual review of our Safety Policy.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EA training needs analysis, aligned to our volunteer roles and ways of working.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ENew Safety Learning for our volunteer base, developed with (and assured by) RoSPA Qualifications.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ERequiring all our volunteers to complete additional safety training. We\u2019re giving support to volunteers so they can complete this training by 14 July 2025.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWe commissioned independent experts Adventure Risk Management Services (Adventure RMS) to review our Adventurous Activity Permit Scheme, assessing its design, standards, and regulatory engagement. A formal response to these findings will be submitted to the Safety Committee in summer 2025.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003ESupporting our movement\u003C/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Safety Team gives advice and guidance across our movement, comprising staff and volunteers.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThey\u2019ve run training weekends around key activities, Nights Away, and permits. Following positive feedback, more of these weekends are planned for the year ahead.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThey\u2019ve made some initial, proactive, on-site risk-based visits offering more direct support for volunteers.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThey\u2019ve delivered internal reviews of safety guidance and began offering more support at key events for our movement.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThey\u2019ve enhanced the approach to First Aid training and support, clarifying the use of external qualifications.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThey\u2019ve given clarity about restrictions for those involved in critical incidents or significant near misses, making sure Scouts provides adequate support and is effectively managing risk.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThey\u2019ve established a new approach to reviewing risk and compliance throughout the movement with dedicated staff support. This was informed by team site visits and has included engaging with a substantial number of volunteers across our movement to assess and support compliance within five core control areas: Nights Away, Training, Safety, Visits Abroad, and Adventurous Activities.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThey\u2019ve taken the first step to rebuilding our volunteer Adventurous Activities team, as a core part of what young people experience in our programme.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EReporting and insights\u003C/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThrough the year, there\u2019s been an increase in the number of safety incidents and \u2018near misses\u2019 reported into the National Safety Team. 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Learnings from this and other reported incidents are published on Scouts website to make sure learning is shared openly with the movement. Learnings which led us to change our approach or processes have included:\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EA ban on using Trotti bikes following an incident overseas. Investigations determined brakes are orientated differently in mainland Europe compared to UK cycles. This, combined with the potential for further incidents, meant the Safety Committee ratified the unusual decision to stop this activity.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThe importance of applying robust risk assessment principles, including how to implement dynamic risk assessment, has been incorporated into the mandatory training designed in this period and supported by RoSPA.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThe importance of communicating with parents and carers, in a clear, emphatic way, about any serious incidents. 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This means members, via our website, are given regular updates and can learn from key safety\u2013related incidents.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ERegarding insufficient national resourcing to proactively offer support to the movement, Scouts continues to expand its Safety Team, across staff and volunteers, so that it can investigate all reported incidents. The team has begun to look at proactive projects where there are opportunities to make sure approaches are more robust with the aim of preventing incidents.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EIn regard to the challenges specific to our federated structure and joint leadership approaches, these have been mitigated through closer scrutiny from the Safety Committee. The Safety Team continues to build relationships to strengthen our approach. 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The following deserve a special mention:\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThe Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) for their independent expertise as leaders in the safety sector.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ERoyal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), who continue to share vital learning with us.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThe Voluntary and Community Sector Emergencies Partnership (VCSEP).\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EEssex County Fire and Rescue Service.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EAdventure Risk Management Services (Adventure RMS) who\u2019ve worked with Scouts this year as we examine specific elements of what we do, such as the Adventurous Activity Permit Scheme.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EIndependent members of the Fatal Accident Investigation Panel for the diligence they showed in their investigation into the tragic death of an Explorer Scout.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EOur Primary Authority partner, for their continued hard work and dedication to our movement.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E","gtmId":"","gtmClass":""}]}],"config":null},{"type":"TwoColumnLayoutBlock","areas":[{"items":[{"gridType":"gridImageBlock","gtmId":"","gtmClass":"","image":"/media/h23l0lnk/young-person-and-volunteer-wearing-helmets.jpg","width":1280,"height":720,"altText":"A young person, wearing a yellow helmet, looks forward while a volunteer, wearing a red helmet, secures their harness.","caption":"","link":null}]},{"items":[{"gridType":"gridImageBlock","gtmId":"","gtmClass":"","image":"/media/girnf5gm/volunteer-wearing-helmet.jpg","width":1280,"height":720,"altText":"A volunteer, wearing a green polo top and red helmet, holds a rope while looking upwards.","caption":"","link":null}]}],"config":null},{"type":"singleColumn","areas":[{"items":[{"gridType":"RichTextBlock","content":"\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EWhat\u0027s next\u003C/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EScouts will continue to invest in safety, putting it at the heart of all we do. We\u2019re passionate about building our collective capability to deliver safe and meaningful learning for young people.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESpecifically, we\u2019ll:\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EKeep seeking input from independent experts as we drive transparent, continuous, improvement in Scouts\u2019 safety practices.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EReview and learn from the recommendations in independent reports and movement consultation, while continuing to deliver on all our PFD commitments.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ERefine our policies and practices around safety. We\u2019ll make changes in our approach to risk assessment, as highlighted by RoSPA\u2019s review, and develop the Adventurous Activities Permit Scheme in response to the independent review by Adventure RMS.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EReview our approach to incident management, making it easier for teams to report incidents and provide helpful insights to leaders. 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