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  1. How do local providers keep up to date with developing Church policy?

  2. How much support can be given via the Internet? Would the centre produce a good, common professional Human Resources advice database system?

  3. Will there be a "clergy handbook"?

  4. How much advice is going to be available in written form (e.g. as a manual) and how much interpersonal communication with professional Human Resource advisers?

  5. Where are decisions of regarding codes of good practice to be made?

 

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1. How do local providers keep up to date with developing Church policy?

This would depend on the agreed structures but this could be through regular briefings (face-to-face) with the national service and the national level could ensure electronic updates etc by an intranet/web facility.

 

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2. How much support can be given via the internet? Would the centre produce a good, common professional human resources advice database system?

That is certainly a possibility.  The increasing use of the internet as an information tool suggests that it would be an appropriate medium through which to provide material for those who are undertaking the work locally.  As for the common professional human resources advice database system, there is much to commend it, especially if the regional support network is linked, but it will require the dioceses to devolve some control to the database creator.

 

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3. Will there be a ‘clergy handbook’?

The terms of service regulations with their codes of practice and guidelines will effectively be the ‘handbook’.  How this is made available and to whom is one of the issues to be discussed and agreed.

 

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4. How much advice is going to be available in written form (e.g. as a manual) and how much interpersonal communication with professional human resource advisers?

A combination – there will be a package of codes of good practice and guidance produced as part of the terms of service proposals and the terms of service regulations themselves will provide clarity where, hitherto, there has been none.  However, it will be important to recognise particular local circumstances. This is best applied after discussion with others including, in some instances, professional staff at national level

 

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5. Where are decisions of regarding codes of good practice to be made?

The responsibility for codes of good practice will lie ultimately with the Archbishops’ Council but in making changes to terms of service regulations they will be required to take advice from the General Synod and will be supported by the relevant structure established for the purpose within the NCIs, currently DRACSC.

 

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