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The Programme - describes the Balanced Programme provided in the Sections for young people. It encompasses the Programme Zones, methods and underlying ways of working for that Section.

All activities must be attractive and challenging to young people.

The Programme is based on the principles of Scouting - duty to God, duty to others and duty to self - and is the means of achieving the Purpose of Scouting.

The Programme in Scouting has a fundamental dimension which determines how it is carried out. This is the Scout Method. The Scout Method is a system of progressive self-education through:

• the Scout Promise and the Scout Law;

• learning by doing;

• membership of small groups (for example the Patrol);

• involving, under adult guidance, progressive discovery and acceptance of responsibility;

• training towards self-government;

• direction towards the development of character;

• the acquisition of competence, self-reliance, dependability and the capacities both to co-operate and to lead;

• encouraging and enabling personal best effort;

• progressive and stimulating programmes of varied activities based on the interests and choices of the participants, including games, useful skills, and services to the community, taking place largely in an outdoor setting in contact with nature.

Members of the Scout and Guide Movements - is taken to mean Members of an Association or Federation recognised by either the World Organisation of the Scout Movement (WOSM) or the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS).

County - although in some parts of the British Isles Scout Counties are known as Areas or Islands - and in one case Bailiwick - for ease of reading POR simply refers to County/Counties.

Where relevant, when the word 'County' is used, it may be read as Area, Island or Bailiwick as appropriate.

'Counties' includes Areas, Islands and Bailiwick when appropriate.

Country Headquarters - refers to the headquarters of The Scottish Council of The Scout Association or the Northern Ireland Scout Council and to Headquarters at Gilwell Park in the case of England and Wales and the offshore islands.

Headquarters - refers to the Headquarters of The Scout Association in the United Kingdom.

Overseas Branches - refers to Branches of The Scout Association which are established in certain territories overseas.

British Groups Abroad - are Scout Groups, which are registered by The Scout Association in a number of other countries.

The Personal Enquiry - This is a check made against records at Headquarters and with the Criminal Records Bureau in England and Wales, Disclosure Scotland in Scotland, and the Pre-employment Consultancy Service in Northern Ireland.