All the indicators show it: French scouting is in great shape. The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) identified 177,000 scouts in France in 2017, all movements combined. The French Scout Federation, which brings together six of the ten scout movements in the country, even went from 75,000 young people registered in 2012 to 125,000 in 2018. A trend confirmed by an OpinionWay survey for Scouts and Guides of France in 2018, according to which 67% of French people have a good opinion of scouting.
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If the movements fill up with young people, a problem arises, however, in the recruitment of chiefs and chiefs. "Scouting actually works cyclically, and is blocked in its growth by a lack of supervisors," observed Maxime Vanhoenacker, anthropologist at CNRS. “Today we are witnessing the peak of one of these cycles, especially among the main movements, such as the Scouts and Guides of France, Guides and Scouts of Europe and Unit Scouts
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