Boy Scouts leadership has insisted that scouting“is safer now than ever before” and 90 percent of the claims against the organization “occurred more than 30 years ago.”
Last year the Scouting Family memo details the steps they have taken to make scouting safer. “From mandatory youth protection training and background checks for all volunteers and staff to policies that prohibit one-on-one interaction between youth and adults and require that any suspected abuse is reported to law enforcement, our volunteers and employees take youth protection extremely seriously and do their part to help keep kids safe.”
