{"id":1054,"date":"2010-02-04T13:33:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2010-02-04T13:33:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:33:17","slug":"trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:278,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/tinyurl.com\\\/yavo6dk&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thescoutmasterminute.net\\\/2010\\\/02\\\/some-leadership-attributes.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">The first part of the UK Scout Law states that \u2018A Scout is to be Trusted\u2019. This law applies to both young people and Leaders alike, no exception. SM Jerry has <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yavo6dk\" target=\"_blank\">posed something similar<\/a> recently when he talks about honesty and setting a good example.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">So it is quite sad to read in our local newspaper that an ex Scout Leader from a local Troop has been convicted of benefit fraud and sentenced to pay back over \u00a33000 and do 60 days community service.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The account in the paper has all the usual scouting clich\u00e9s that are used when reporting something to do with Scouts. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Now I do not know him, nor to my knowledge have I ever met him, but there do seem to be a couple of points of interest here. First of all he was claiming incapacity benefit for a damaged back and was unable to walk without a stick, but was \u2018caught\u2019 doing Scouting activities like hiking. Secondly on the comments section of the online reports I\u2019ve read, a couple of his ex Scouts have written to say what a good Leader he was and how much he taught them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">So it seems that, possibly, he mad some silly decisions regarding his claims, but was a good Leader. However he and to some degree his Group are now tarred with a bad name. Which is a shame as someone with a previously good name and has done good work in the community is now a criminal \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first part of the UK Scout Law states that \u2018A Scout is to be Trusted\u2019. This law applies to both young people and Leaders alike, no exception. SM Jerry has posed something similar recently when he talks about honesty and setting a good example. So it is quite sad to read in our local &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=1054\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trust&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saTxP-trust","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}