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{{Short description|Special needs programs in Scouting organizations}}
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'''Extension Scouting''' are programs in some [[Scouting|Scout]] organizations for young people with special needs.

==Background==
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, 1st Baron Baden-Powell|Robert Baden-Powell]], founder and first [[Chief Scout (The Scout Association)|Chief Scout]] of [[The Boy Scouts Association]] in the [[United Kingdom]], that the programme be made "open to all."<ref>{{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}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=November 2022}}

[[File:Scoutlink (The Scout Association).png|thumb|Scoutlink badge of [[The Scout Association]] of the United Kingdom]]
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 disability|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 [[The Blue Bird (play)|L'Oiseau Bleu]] by [[Maurice Maeterlinck]];
* in [[Scouts en Gidsen Vlaanderen]], "AKABE", Anders KAn BEst (Different is all-right);
* in [[Poland|Polish]] Scouts{{Which?|date=November 2022}}, "{{Interlanguage link multi|Nieprzetarty Szlak|pl}}";
* in [[Kenya Scouts Association]], "[[Kenya Scouts Association#Extension Scouts|Street Scouts]]".

== See also ==
* [[Agoonoree]]
* [[Scouts with Special Needs and Disabilities]]

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