Skills for Life
Our plan to deliver better futures
Our programmes of work
Due to the impact of COVID-19, our Skills for Life strategy has been extended until 2025.
These are the seven programmes of work that’ll help us to achieve this strategy, which are:
- Volunteer Experience
- 14-24 Programme Review
- Perception
- Digital
- Early Years
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
- Safer Scouting
We’re involving people on the ground every step of the way in the updated strategy, to make sure anything new works for the majority and genuinely make things better, easier and more fun.
Volunteer Experience
More well-trained, better-supported and motivated adult volunteers and young people from diverse backgrounds with access to great digital tools that support scouting.
Find out how we're transforming volunteering at Scouts14-24 Programme Review
A fun, enjoyable, high quality programme consistently delivered and supported by simple (digital) tools.
See our plans for the future generations of 14-24 year oldsEarly years
Provide more young people with skills for life through a new section for four and five year olds.
Read about our plans for a phased roll-out of SquirrelsDigital
Embedding our digital principles and transforming the Scouts experience with better digital tools.
How we're making Scouts digital-firstEquity, Diversity and Inclusion
Changing the way we think and do things so that we can become a movement that gives everyone what they need to thrive.
Take a look at our vision for Equity, Diversity and InclusionRace equity
It’s time for every one of us, as Scouts, to live by our promise, law and values by becoming a place that’s inclusive of all races and ethnic backgrounds, so that everyone can be themselves and thrive.
Discover how we're embedding race equity across the movementSafe Scouting
Keeping everyone safe is at the heart of our culture in Scouts. The Safe Scouting programme prioritises making further improvements to our assurance processes and digital tools to enable volunteers to better deliver safe scouting related activities in the future.
Keep up to date on how we're staying safePerception
Scouts is clearly understood, more visible, trusted, respected, and widely seen as playing a key role in today’s society.
How we're securing public support to create greater impactWhat we wear
After listening to research from thousands of young people and adults inside and out of Scouts, we’re now exploring how we can update what we wear, including our uniform, for Scouts age and above (10.5+) and adult volunteers.
Find out about our plans