The Scout Association

Scouts make their voices heard

The Scout Association and Involve organised events at each of this year's party conferences in which Scouts had the chance to air their views on the subjects that mattered to them direct to the UK's top politicians.

We've now produced a report detailing the outcomes of our Scouting Sunday events - you can download it here as a pdf.

You can also see how the Scouts got on at each conference:

• Liberal Democrat Party Conference
• Labour Party Conference
  
• Conservative Party Conference
  

Involve are a public participation charity working to promote the involvement of the general public in public decision making.

The events focussed on some of the most crucial issues that affect young people today; including knife crime, playing outside to combat childhood obesity, volunteering and getting more involved in politics.

Hold your own debate

If you feel inspired by what you've seen then you can still get your Scouts involved by organising a debate at your meeting place around one of the topic areas. Use the downloadable resources below to help you on your way:

• Download the organise a debate factsheet to help your Scouts run a group discussion on one or all four of the topic areas.
• Download the topic paper on knife crime
  
• Download the topic paper on childhood obesity
• Download the topic paper on youth volunteering
• Download the topic paper on youth participation in politics