Sue Smith
Oxford and Swindon Area Meeting (OSAM) Trustees have updated us on the drafting of a workable policy and guidelines around safeguarding. This relates to all children with whom a Meeting is involved, and to adults who fall within the standard definition of ‘adults at risk’ (which is not all older people in our Meetings, and which replaces the previous wording ‘vulnerable adult’.)
Until the new policy and practice guidelines are completed, the OSAM handbook used currently – ‘Towards Right Ordering: a handbook for the management of Local Meetings’ – remains the one to which we (Oxford Local Meeting) should refer.
Katherine Gee from Oxford Local Meeting is now the Safeguarding Coordinator / Responsible Trustee for OSAM, and Adrian Allsop from Abingdon is the deputy. Gwithian Doswell is the DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) Verifier for Oxford Meeting.
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Forty-Three Newsletter • Number 506 • June 2021
Oxford Friends Meeting
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