Updates and new Lead/Supervise Quiz now live!
I hope this will help people to understand what the Scout Association rules are for various activities, there are many fact sheets and many pages on www.scouts.co.uk devoted to the subject but even as a 25 year Scout, 15+ years as a leader and 10 years as an assessor for Dinghy and Powerboating, new things keep surfacing.
One of my aims is to make getting an activity permit as simple as possible, so i have pulled as much information together as i can. I also try to keep it up to date but the master set of rules is always POR/the scout association website.
By taking the quiz, we can then sign off the activity rules section of a water activities permit for you.
This site is a guide, it may be that rules change and it takes some time to update the site, the "rules" are always up to date on the scout website!
There is a lot of information on here, to simplify there are two links to the right, click the one appropriate to the kind of permit you are applying for and it will give you a list of the pages you NEED to read and then the relevant quiz.
a. Prior to every activity the Leader must ensure that: