Adult to child ratios
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Girlguiding UK suggests the following adult to child ratios
for normal unit meetings within the usual meeting place.
Unit Leadership Teams are not required to follow them, apart
from the mandatory requirement for two adults at all Rainbow
meetings.
The Unit Team’s decision regarding the number of girls and young
women in the unit is final.
The ratios become mandatory when:
- taking the unit out of the normal meeting place
- undertaking certain activities.
| |
Suggested minimum unit
size |
Suggested unit
size |
Suggested maximum unit
size |
Suggested ratio of
adult to girls |
Mandatory ratio |
| Rainbow
Guide units |
5 |
12-15 |
18 |
1:5 |
Minimum of 2 adults irrespective of
the size of the unit. |
| Brownie
Guide units |
12 |
12-18 |
24 |
1:8 |
N/A |
| Guide
units |
12 |
12-30 |
36 |
1:12 |
N/A |
| The
Senior Section |
5 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Young Leaders are members of the Senior Section helping at a
Rainbow, Brownie or Guide unit. Ideally there should be no more
than two Young Leaders in a unit.
Rainbow units may have Rainbow Helpers and Brownie units may
have Pack Leaders. These are girls in the Guide section who are
working towards a specific part of their section programme.
Young Leaders who have not reached their 18th birthday, Rainbow
Helpers and Pack Leaders must be counted as children in the adult
to child ratios when taking a unit away from the meeting place.
The recommended ratio of adults to girls does not apply to
Lone Guiding.
The A-Z of activities and Residential events documents for the Training and
Activity centres contain details of requirements for specific
activities, along with qualifications, ratios and minimum
requirements for residential events.
To download forms related to camps, holidays and sleepovers
go to the main
Girlguiding UK website Resource library.
Page last updated: 10/28/2011