Document Category: Policies

Effective from: January 19th 2025

Amended: July 5th 2024

Issued: November 2020, Next Review Date: November 2021

Issued: March 22nd 2019, Amended: September 22nd 2019, Next Review Date: September 2021

Issued: January 15th 2022, Next Review Date: January 2023

Issued: January 2022, Updated: April 2025, Next Review Date: April 2028

Issued: November 29th 2009, Updated: March 11th 2017, Next Review Date: March 2020 – Establishes a Risk Management Advisory Team and a Risk Management Assessment Advisory Panel – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn of adopted by the Board

Issued: May 2nd 2020, Updated: August 8th 2025

Issued: May 17th 2024, Next Review Date: May 17th 2029

Issued: June 16th 2013, Amended: June 11th 2016, Next Review Date: June 2019 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn of approved by the Board

Issued: June 2013 – Refers to the National Management Committee – unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: September 21st 2013, Amended: February 22nd 2015 – Issued by the National Management Committee – unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: June 2014 –  Issued by the National Management Committee – unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: Sept 2014 – Issued by the National Management Committee – unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: Mar 2015 – Issued by the National Management Committee – unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: June 2015 – Establishes the principles of Risk Management for the organisation and introduces the Risk Management Framework – Issued by the National Management Committee – unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: June 2015 – Needs updating to reflect change of structures since Oct 2018 – Issued by the National Management Committee – unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: March 25th 2015, Amended: January 9th 2019, Next Review Date: July 2019 – Amended by the Board of Directors when they established an Audit & Risk Management Committee after the EGM in Oct 2018

Issued: Aug 2015 – Issued by the National Management Committee – unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: Dec 2003 – Superseded by the Scout Group Constitution and the Scout Group Charter

Issued: October 10th 2015 – Issued by the National Management Committee, seems to be in use still – Needs to be amended to reflect national organisation and policy changes since October 2018

Issued: January 19th 2016 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn of adopted by the Board

Issued: February 13th 2016 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn of approved by the Board

Issued: Jan 2004 – Needs to be updated to reflect National Organisation changes since October 2018 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn of approved by the Board

Issued: Sep 2004 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn of approved by the Board

Issued: July 2005 – Seems to be out of date, perhaps it should be withdrawn or updated

Extract from the Gode of Good Practice, now superseded by this extract from the Child Safety and Child Protection Policy

Issued: July 2006 – Superseded by the Scout Group Constitution and the membership Policy

Issued: May 2010 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: May 2010 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Adopted: May 15th 2011, Amended: June 14th 2014 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Adopted: September 18th 2010 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Adopted: September 18th 2010 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Adopted: September 18th 2010 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Adopted: September 18th 2010, Amended: November 27th 2010 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: August 2021

Issued: March 12th 2011, Amended: November 26th 2011 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: Sept 2011 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: Sept 2011 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: Nov 2011 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: Jan 2012 – Describes an appropriate approach for Scout attendance at funerals for a number of the major religions in Ireland at the time, as well as some general guidelines – Issued by the National Management Committee, seems to have been adopted by the Board as  it now appears in the Documents section at scouts.ie

Issued: June 16th 2012, Amended: May 14th 2016, Next Review Date: May 2019 – Not in use since October 2018 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn by the Board

Issued: Nov 2012 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: Feb 2013 – Simply the adoption of the World Policy (WOSM) so it would appear to be still in effect.

Select the link to see the current version at scout.org

Issued: February 21st 2004, Amended: January 7th 2017, Next Review Date: January 2020 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn by the Board

Issued: Oct 2017 – Appears to have been superseded by BOD-SG-002 Code of Behaviour to Assist Adults Engaging With Children in Scouting and BOD-MA-001 Membership Policy

Issued: July 16th 2021, Next Review Date: July 2022 – Provides a structured approach to resolving Grievance amicably, and a more formal Disputes process for addressing unresolved or escalated Grievances

Issued: July 16th 2021, Next Review Date: July 2022 – The Procedures to implement the Policy

Issued: November 11th 2017, Amended: November 18th 2018, Next Review Date: November 2021 – Provides a framework for resolving conflict amicably and informally, unresolved conflict may need to be addressed as a Grievance

Issued: November 11th 2017, Amended: January 11th 2020, Next Review Date: January 2023 – Sets out that such disputes should be dealt with within the Scout Group, and how

Issued: July 16th 2021, Next Review Date: July 2022- Provides for a Disciplinary Procedure to respond to complaints of breach of Scouting discipline

Issued: July 16th 2021, Next Review Date: July 2022 – The Procedures to implement the Policy

Amended: Sept 2022 – Company Constitution (Scouting Ireland Services clg)

October 2018

Issued: May 26th 2007, Amended: February 10th 2018, Next Review Date: February 2021 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: November 1st 2003, Amended: May 1st 2017, Next Review Date: May 2020 – Issued by the National Management Committee, seems to be in use still – Needs to be amended to reflect national organisation and policy changes since October 2018

Issued: February 22nd 2015, Amended: May 13th 2017, Next Review: May 2020  – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: January 29th 2011, Amended: March 10th 2018, Next Review Date: March 2021 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: November 1st 2003, Amended: March 11th 2017, Next Review Date: March 2020 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Seems to be still in use – Needs to be updated to reflect national organisation changes since October 2018

Issued: November 27th 2003, Amended: March 11th 2017, Next Review Date: Mach 2020 – Needs to be amended to reflect national organisation and policy changes since October 2018 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Seems to be in use still

Issued: March 31st 2007, Amended: October 2nd 2018, Next Review Date: February 2021 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board – Refers to a National Team that is no longer in existance

Issued: August 14th 2004, Amended: October 10th 2015 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: December 14th 2003, Amended: February 10th 2018, Next Review Date: February 2021 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: February 19th 2011, Amended: March 10th 2018, Next Review Date: March 2021 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: February 19th 2011, Amended: March 10th 2018, Next Review Date: March 2021 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: February 19th 2011, Amended: March 10th 2018, Next Review Date: March 2021 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: February 19th 2011, Amended: March 10th 2018, Next Review Date: March 2021 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Issued: Feb 2018 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn or adopted by the Board

Amended: Jan 2017 – Issued by the National Management Committee – Unclear if it has been withdrawn by the Board

Issued: July 8th 2017, Amended: September 22nd 2019, Next Review Date: November 2021

Issued: June 2019, Amended: December 2019, Next Review Date: June 2022

Issued: December 2019, Amended: Jan 2020, Next Review Date: January 2023