Scouting/Cub Scouts

How to Protect your Children from Child-Abuse

Reviewing the Boy Scout handbook, "How to Protect your Children from Child-Abuse" is REQUIRED EACH YEAR of cub scouting. Below is a link to that handbook.

http://www.scouting.org/filestore/ypt/pdf/46-015.pdf

New Program 2015

What is changing:

• Switch to Scout Oath and Scout Law, retiring of Cub Scout Promise and Law of the Pack
• Tiger Cubs becomes simply “Tiger” with new image
• Arrow of Light will no longer require earning Webelos
• Activities will be more active, more aligned with Aims/Mission
• Advancement will be simplified
• Academics & Sports program will be discontinued (as of May 2015)
• Current immediate/elective recognition devices will be replaced
• One Den Leader Guide per rank

What’s not changing:

• Cub Scouting’s family focus
• Ranks or approach
• Age (or gender) of ranks
• Den/pack meeting structures
• Outdoor program
• Delivery model
• Current Cub Scout motto, sign, salute and handshake
• Fun, though there will be even more than before

References:

• Better activities, simplified advancement coming to Cub Scouting in 2015 - Bryan on Scouting - http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2014/01/01/better-activities-simplified-advancement-coming-to-cub-scouting-in-2015/
• Program Updates - 2014 and Beyond - http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/programupdates.aspx
• New Cub Adventure Program - http://scoutingmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/new_cub_adventure_program_mg.pdf
• Program Change Overview—Cub Scouts (2015) and Boy Scouts (2016) - http://www.scouting.org/filestore/program_update/pdf/2015_Program_Change_Overview_Cub_Scouts_Boy_Scouts.pdf