Youth Protection Question

[PACAN]

How do units interpret this?

Registered leaders must follow these guidelines with all Scouting youth outside of Scouting activities. There are careers that may require one-on-one contact with youth, however aside from those roles, volunteers must abide by the youth protection policies of Scouting America even outside of Scouting activities.

 

Scout leader hires a scout in his business as a trainee to install air conditioners.    Scout leader has to travel to job sites in his two seat work truck and takes the youth with him. 

Opinion ?

[Tron]

Sounds like a poor decisions. What's the number, 9 out of 10 sexual assault victims personally know their attacker? Never 1v1 ever has a serious track record backing it up. 

[PACAN]

There are careers that may require one-on-one contact with youth, however aside from those roles, 

 

This is the line that I'm not sure what they meant by adding it.   Employer/Employee?  Doctor/patient?

[Tron]

22 hours ago, PACAN said:

There are careers that may require one-on-one contact with youth, however aside from those roles, 

 

This is the line that I'm not sure what they meant by adding it.   Employer/Employee?  Doctor/patient?

I am going to guess that it's a teacher/student thing. I know several teachers who are also scout leaders in my community; technically if they are walking down a hall after school when there are barely any people present and a student who is also scout is walking down said hall and there is no one else there; wouldn't that technically be a YPT 1v1 violation? 

The real answer is that Scouting America was put over a barrel by the lawsuit; a lot of victims were assaulted outside of the auspices of BSA but the perpetrator was someone they knew from within BSA. Now we have these rules that make no sense.