I did scout camp (scouts been 10 to 14 years old) last year - they were short of responsible adults and due to an unfortunate admin error they ended up with me. I have no respect for a lot of H&S rules and I decided that they should be allowed to have fun.
They were all prepared to get their hands dirty.
They collected all their own firewood, helped me build the tyre swings and erect the tents for the beavers (6 to 8 year old) and generally got stuck in to every task you gave them.
In fact they went out of their way to not get washed or change their clothes all weekend!
I think your question should have been "Do the adults not want them to get their hands dirty" - because if you actually give them a chance to do so then they will.
I hope I'm wrong but I can't help but wonder if they didn't just get the lecture "whatever you do, keep your trousers on if there's any big feckers around" and the reason why ;)
You will be pleased to know that you are wrong. Kid's have two mouths and no ears. When they were sent for a shower they were overheard saying "lets just go into to the showers wait 5 minutes and pretend to have a shower no one will know"
My wife needed a check for helping out with programmes at the local church and separately for another group - despite her already having a more rigourous enhanced check due to her work as a community psychiatric nurse working vith vulnerable people.
I too cannot help out at our children's school, other than one offs where staff are constantly present, despite being checked to a higher level than the enhanced check for my occupation.
Yet for a school exchange, an 11 year-old Spanish boy was allowed to stay with us for a week, with no checks whatsoever. While he was with us "Safeguarding" meant that we were not allowed the personal mobile number of any member of the school staff in case of emergency, only that of one of the Spanish teachers - who, when we needed to contact him urgently, had apparently changed his mobile and number before the trip and was uncontactable!
When our son made the return visit a month later, "Safeguarding" prevented him staying with the family (despite our wishes) and all the children had to stay in rooms at retreat at a monastery. This meant instead of a full week (Tue lunchtime to Tue lunchtime) that the Spanish children had, our children had Friday evening to Monday lunchtime, before coming home, spent far less time with the children and parents of the "host" families, lost out on non-organised events and it cost twice as much as we had to pay for the accomodation. As well as this, again for "Safeguarding" reasons, our children could not take mobile phones (our son would have loved to cll us each night, tell us about his day and say goodnight to us and his brothers before bed) or cameras, so they were uanable to bring back any photographs of things that interested them, activities with their friends, etc. Yet we were allowed to take photographs of all the British and Spanish children taking part in the exchange, in the school playground before the Spanish children left - with the headmistress getting them all organised for the photos!
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