{"id":1344,"date":"2021-05-30T17:14:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T16:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/?page_id=1344"},"modified":"2022-01-09T09:31:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T09:31:14","slug":"safeguarding-children-and-adults-at-risk-in-our-meetings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/june-2021\/safeguarding-children-and-adults-at-risk-in-our-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Safeguarding Children and Adults-at-Risk in Our Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Sue Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8216;adults at risk&#8217; (which is not all older people in our Meetings, and which replaces the previous wording &#8216;vulnerable adult&#8217;.)<\/p>\n<p>Until the new policy and practice guidelines are completed, the OSAM handbook used currently \u2013 &#8216;Towards Right Ordering: a handbook for the management of Local Meetings&#8217; \u2013 remains the one to which we (Oxford Local Meeting) should refer.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-30-at-12.13.25-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1345\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-30-at-12.13.25-PM-738x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-30-at-12.13.25-PM-738x1024.png 738w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-30-at-12.13.25-PM-216x300.png 216w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-30-at-12.13.25-PM-768x1065.png 768w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-30-at-12.13.25-PM.png 1076w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"fasc-button fasc-size-medium fasc-type-glossy fasc-rounded-medium fasc-ico-before dashicons-arrow-up-alt fasc-style-bold\" style=\"background-color: #0315a3; color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/june-2021\/\">Back to June 2021 Newsletter Main Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Forty-Three<\/em> Newsletter \u2022 Number 506 \u2022 June 2021<br \/>\n<\/strong>Oxford Friends Meeting<br \/>\n43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"mailto:newsletter@oxfordquakers.org\">newsletter@oxfordquakers.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8216;adults at risk&#8217; (which is not all older people in our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/june-2021\/safeguarding-children-and-adults-at-risk-in-our-meetings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Safeguarding Children and Adults-at-Risk in Our Meetings<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":1313,"menu_order":38,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1344\/revisions\/1346"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}