Meeting for Sufferings: Area Meeting Concerns

From the Probation Service to topics for Yearly Meeting 2014

by Caroline Humphries 11th October 2013

Probation Service  Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) has requested advice from Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) following receipt of a minute that set out a concern over changes to the probation service.  The concern was raised at Telford Meeting and supported by Worcestershire and Shropshire Area Meeting (AM). It highlights the government’s new policy ‘to put seventy per cent of probation work out to competitive tender to private companies’.