This was reduced to 50,000 words in a 175-page handbook size "Advance Party Report, Popular Edition" through summarising and omitting many of the arguments relating to the 409 recommendations.

4 That the original Scout Law be re-written, becoming- 5 That a new training and advancement scheme be introduced.

The suggestion that the Wood Badge insignia (for adult leader training) be replaced by a cloth emblem was also not adopted.

In October of that year, the new uniform was introduced along with the new training schemes, including the launch of the Venture Scout section.

[7] The front cover of A Boy Scout Black Paper features a photograph of a Southeast London Scout Group which, it was claimed, was forced to close under the Advance Party Report as the leader was aged 65 and no replacement leader was available.

The Paper concludes with a copy of a letter from the Scout Association's North and Central Lambeth Council refusing to re-register the Group and therefore forcing its closure.

The association's total number of young people within the reduced Statutory Youth Service age range of 14 to 21 was over 81,000.

The number of Scout Groups had fallen to 11,464, reflecting the policy of amalgamating smaller units which had been proposed by the Advance Party.

However, the Association has avoided such a widespread and fundamental review and making as many changes as with the Advance Party Report.

A new training scheme and progress awards for the Scout section were launched in April 1985,[10] Against the recommendations of Advance Party Report, the Beaver Scout section for 6 and 7 year olds was launched in April 1986 after a trial scheme and in February 1990, it was decided in principle that the Association would become fully co-educational.