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  • Midlothian Nights Away Notification
    PURPOSE AND USE: This form provides the information a Commissioner (or their nominee) requires to APPROVE an event to take place (i.e. POR 9.1b/9.1c). The Permit holder is responsible for ensuring the appropriate Commissioner is informed about each section attending a nights away event (even a District or County event). For all Nights Away events the information below should be with your Commissioner (or their nominee) at least 7 days before the event (in normal circumstances). 

    The event must not go ahead until the Commissioner (or their nominee) has confirmed their approval.

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  • Please check the Prohibited and Restricted Areas Camping Directory on scouts.org.uk to ensure your site does not fall within a restricted area

  • Event Leadership Information

  • Planning and Approvals
    As part of the planning and preparation for the nights away activity the following documentation should be in place: programmes, attendance information, medical and emergency contact information for attendees, InTouch system, menus and written risk assessments.
    You are required to provide a written risk assessment along with this form to your Commissioner or their delegate, Other documentation (listed above) does not need to be provided with this form but must be available upon request.

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  • If you are doing one of the following activities, the Risk Assessment should be added here, it can also be emailed to the DC.

    archery; caving; climbing and abseiling, except:bouldering; climbs using auto belay systems (systems that lower a climber to the ground without any human intervention); hill walking and off road cycling (in Terrain One and Two);
    hovercrafting; shooting; snowsports (except artificial slopes and nursery slopes); all water activities, except swimming, on class B1, B2, B3 or A waters; all motorised water activities and SCUBA activities on class C waters.

     

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  • YOU MUST CONFIRM THE STATEMENT BELOW FOR THE FORM TO SUBMIT

    I confirm the risk and control measures will be communicated to all involved in the event in an approropriate manner

    Contingency Plans - I confirm that if the planned activities cannot take place during the Nights Away Event, the leadership team have considered alternatives and they will be carried out as per the local approval process.

  • DATA PROTECTION: This form is used to collect information about you and your team for the purpose of approving this nights away activity, this is to be used by your Commissioner. As part of this form we collect personal data about you and your team, this detail is required so that we can check that everyone meets the membership and vetting requirements for the event and that appropriate permit holders are in place. We do not share your personal data provided in this form with any third parties. We take your personal data privacy seriously. The data you provide to us is securely stored (based on local arrangements) and we will keep the data we capture from this form for 2 months after the event for any queries that arise then it will be securely destroyed. For further detail on our retention periods please visit our Data Protection Policy here.

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