Extension Scouting was earlier called
Scouts Malgré Tout, which is French for "Scouts Despite Everything". It aims to meet the mandate 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." 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. 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 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, ""; • in
Kenya Scouts Association, "
Street Scouts". == See also ==