Scouting/Cub Scouts

How to Protect your Children from Child-Abuse
Reviewing the Boy Scout handbook, "How to Protect your Children from Child-Abuse" is REQUIRED EACH YEAR of cub scouting. Below is a link to that handbook.

http://www.scouting.org/filestore/ypt/pdf/46-015.pdf

New Program 2015
What is changing:
 * Switch to Scout Oath and Scout Law, retiring of Cub Scout Promise and Law of the Pack
 * Tiger Cubs becomes simply “Tiger” with new image
 * Arrow of Light will no longer require earning Webelos
 * Activities will be more active, more aligned with Aims/Mission
 * Advancement will be simplified
 * Academics & Sports program will be discontinued (as of May 2015)
 * Current immediate/elective recognition devices will be replaced
 * One Den Leader Guide per rank

What’s not changing:
 * Cub Scouting’s family focus
 * Ranks or approach
 * Age (or gender) of ranks
 * Den/pack meeting structures
 * Outdoor program
 * Delivery model
 * Current Cub Scout motto, sign, salute and handshake
 * Fun, though there will be even more than before

References:
 * Better activities, simplified advancement coming to Cub Scouting in 2015 - Bryan on Scouting - http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2014/01/01/better-activities-simplified-advancement-coming-to-cub-scouting-in-2015/
 * Program Updates - 2014 and Beyond - http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/programupdates.aspx
 * New Cub Adventure Program - http://scoutingmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/new_cub_adventure_program_mg.pdf
 * Program Change Overview—Cub Scouts (2015) and Boy Scouts (2016) - http://www.scouting.org/filestore/program_update/pdf/2015_Program_Change_Overview_Cub_Scouts_Boy_Scouts.pdf