Extension Scouting#Scoutlink

Extension Scouting was earlier {{When?|date=November 2024}} called Scouts Malgré Tout{{By whom?|date=November 2024}}{{CN|date=November 2022}}, which is French for "Scouts Despite Everything". It aims to meet the mandate{{explain|date=November 2022}} from Robert Baden-Powell, founder and first Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association in the United Kingdom, that the programme be made "open to all."{{cite web | url = http://www.scoutsqld.com.au/index.cfm?MenuID=65 | title = Extension Scouting in Queensland, Australia| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061005094120/http://www.scoutsqld.com.au/index.cfm?MenuID=65| archive-date = 2006-10-05}}{{Better source needed|date=November 2022}}

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Young people with special needs join in with Scout groups on a regular basis but some organizations provide a special parallel program tailored to these participants.{{Vague|date=November 2024}} For example, The Scout Association of the United Kingdom formed a Disabled Scout Branch in 1926 and has various Scoutlink groups around the country. Scoutlink is a program run by The Scout Association of the United Kingdom in order to provide support and involvement for young people and adults with developmental disabilities, a form of Extension Scouting{{dubious|date=November 2022}}{{cn|date=November 2020}} but is also the name of an Internet chat site and joint programs between The Scout Association in Northern Ireland and Scouting Ireland.

Extension Scouting is known by different names:

• in the Netherlands, "Blauwe Vogels" (Blue Birds), after the play L'Oiseau Bleu by Maurice Maeterlinck;
• in Scouts en Gidsen Vlaanderen, "AKABE", Anders KAn BEst (Different is all-right);
• in Polish Scouts{{Which?|date=November 2022}}, "{{Interlanguage link multi|Nieprzetarty Szlak|pl}}";
• in Kenya Scouts Association, "Street Scouts".

• Agoonoree
• Scouts with Special Needs and Disabilities

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• {{cite web | url = http://www.scout.org.hk/en/department/programme/00002786.html | title =Extension Scouting in Hong Kong}}

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