Parents

Please feel free to Contact us, but we are trying to make the process of moving to the Explorer Scout section seamless by having your child’s Scout Leader pass on the information via OSM.

OSM procedures

We’ve put in place certain procedures regarding the management of Member records on Online Scout Manager relating to Explorer Scouts including Young Leaders.

Explorer Scouts (including Young Leaders)

Explorer Scouts who are Young Leaders will always be part of at least two Sections, and usually three: the Section they volunteer with, the Young Leaders Unit and one of the Dudley Explorer Scout Units: South, West or Beacon.

We need to try and ensure that each young person has only one record on OSM, which is shared between all the Sections they are members of, rather than a separate record in each.

So it shouldn’t look like this, with separate records for each Section…

(BCS is Beavers, Cubs or Scouts, ESU is one of our programme Explorer Scout Units – South, West or Beacon etc, and YLU is the Young Leader Unit)

It should look like this with one single record shared between the Beaver/Cub/Scout Section where they volunteer, the Young Leaders Unit, and their Explorer Scout Unit.

You can see on your OSM whether a Member is shared with another Section…

Scouts moving up to Explorers

We would like Scout Leaders to share the OSM record of any Scout aged 12½-13 with the ‘Dudley District: Explorers – Waiting List’ Section on OSM under the waiting list age range:

When you do this, please send joiningexplorers@dudleydistrict.org.uk an email advising that you have done this and we will then make contact explaining the options open to them.

When they choose an Explorer Scout Unit and/or to become a Young Leader we will then transfer their record to the relevant Section on OSM.

The Scout Leader should remove them from their Section when they’ve moved on to Explorers and we more than welcome the leaders to join them once they have been invited to their first night.

The Group Scout Leader and Section Leader, should then ensure the Young Leader completes the placement agreement and submits this.

Any enquiry for Explorer Scouts will be transferred to the Explorers Waiting list section on OSM.

Hopefully if we all follow these procedures, everything should work well.

If any of this is unclear, or you don’t know who to contact, please let us know.