Dealing with situations

 

Whenever some sort of incident happens you can almost predict the way the mass media tends to run things, suggesting something that's beyond state run bodies is out of its depth as was the case recently regarding serious issues at the 2023 International Scout Jamboree in South Korea.

While there are good questions to be asked regarding how prepared the hosts were not just of the handling of way above average temperatures but of the basics such as clean toilets, and able to cope with the numbers, the response to this situation showed how the Scout Association here takes safeguarding and welfare seriously.

Not in just trying to mitigate some aspects such as timing of activities to avoid peak temperatures, the distribution of water to avoid dehydriation but in taking the decision to relocate to air conditioned hotels when it obvious things were not improving at cost coming out of reserves.

It wasn't a light decision but given the reports I saw, entirely appropriate given the risks of illness which undermines what the whole experience of the internetional jamboree is all about and why trying to ensure given how things were we do our best so that children and young people get the best from it often raising heir own funds.

I feel some of the criticism is unwarrented.