Meeting for Sufferings: Area Meeting (AM) compliance and safeguarding

This was the first time Friends had used a new system, combining the annual returns and the annual safeguarding returns into a single online questionnaire.

by Rebecca Hardy 14th June 2024

The day ended with a report on the annual returns from Area Meetings (AM) on compliance. To the question of why Quakers need compliance, Friends were reminded of Beth Allen’s answer in Quaker faith & practice (8.25): ‘We need to be an ordinary well-run organisation, with good structures and sensible practices, which we then make extraordinary by transcending, not discarding them.’