Meeting for Sufferings: Safeguarding

Meeting for Sufferings considered how Friends should respond to a request from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

by Joseph Jones 18th October 2019

In 2014 the then home secretary Theresa May announced an Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). The Inquiry has asked the Religious Society of Friends, along with other faith bodies, to contribute to an investigation into child protection. Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) received a paper explaining more about the Inquiry, and looked at how Friends should respond.