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Diocesan Administration

The Commission’s duty with regard to diocesan administration is, when carrying out its duty of review, to ‘disseminate, to the extent that the Commission think necessary and in whatever form the Commission thinks fit, guidance and information about good practice to persons and bodies involved in diocesan administration’ and to give appropriate advice on particular issues to such persons and bodies when requested.

The Commission understands the requirement to do this when carrying out its duty to keep the diocesan and provincial structure under review as indicating that the focus of this area of its work should be on administrative sharing between dioceses.

The Commission is beginning its work in this area, working with the Diocesan Administrative Costs Working Group, by mapping existing examples of administrative sharing between dioceses.

S.19 Schemes

The Commission’s consent is required for any scheme under section 19 of the Measure. Such schemes may make provision for diocesan bodies (other than diocesan synods and bishops’ councils) as follows:

  • constituting joint bodies for two or more dioceses,

  • empowering diocesan bodies of two or more dioceses to discharge their functions jointly (in particular through a joint committee), and

  • empowering a diocesan body of one diocese to discharge the functions of the corresponding body of another diocese.

A list of schemes made under s.19 of the Measure is available here.

Guidance on drafting schemes for joint Diocesan Boards of Education is available from the pages of guidance on the operation of the Measure here.