An interview with Yours in Scouting | Part 2

This is the second part of the interview with founders of Yours in Scouting, Sheanna Patelmaster and Lucy Pincott. You can listen to the first part of the podcast.

They debate on the effectiveness of mandatory reporting, mass safeguarding training for Scout leaders and provide advice for survivors who are thinking of disclosing their abuse.

The Yours in Scouting website has a dedicated ‘Get Support‘ page, which includes a number of organisations offering tailored support to both women and men. In addition, the team are currently organising a ‘Trauma Advice Session’ for victims who have been abused in the children’s organisations such as the Scouts, Brownies and Cubs.

The team are urgently calling on The Government and The Scout Association to address its safeguarding practices and take action to protect children under their care. They are proposing that the organisation should:

1. Set up a Lived Experience Board as part of their governance, which will include those who have experienced abuse whilst members of The Scout Association
2. Create a paid Safeguarding Lead position in each Scout county in the UK, to monitor the conduct of volunteers and ensuring that the safeguarding escalation pathway doesn’t go via the District or County Commissioners.

If you’d like to have your say, please click the button below to sign the petition.