Guidance Documents

          Academies

• Church of England Academies: governance and transition
• Church of England involvement in secondary school and academy development and improvement:
• Church of England Academies: National Society Guidance for dioceses and other interested parties
• The Designation of Church of England academies as having a religious character
• The Protection of School Playing Fields and Land for Academies – July 2007

          Admissions

• Guidance on Admissions February 2009
• Aptitude and Ability – definitions and guidance
• Looked After Learners/Children in Care
• School Admissions Code link to DCSF web site

           Application forms and contracts of employment

• Application form for appointment as a Teacher in a Church of England School

           Building Schools for the Future

• National Society Guidance on Building Schools for the Future: VA documentation
• Deed of Novation
• Development Agreement
• Governing Body Agreement (ICT)
• Governing Body Agreement (PFI & ICT)
• PfS VA Guidance
• Procurement Agreement

            Capital works

• Financial support for VA governing bodies from Diocesan Boards of Education

          Cathedral Schools

• Cathedrals as education partners in Academies and other new Church of England schools
• Cathedrals in Educational Partnerships

            Changes in category

• Changes of school category from community to Church of England voluntary aided
• Schools’ Change of Category: Status of existing contracts, including PFI
• Guidance on Change of School Category Proposals

            Children and Young People’s Plan

• Draft Guidance

            Church of England Schools – general

• Application form for appointment as a Teacher (other than a Headteacher) at a Church of England/Church in   Wales Voluntary Aided or Foundation Schools (4th draft) (plus National Society Contracts and link to existing guidance booklets)

           Collective Worship

• Attendance at acts of collective worship in Church of England Schools: Guidance in relation to leadership and management time and to planning, preparation and assessment time
• The churches and collective worship schools: a position paper
• Collective Worship in Schools – Questions and Answers

            Commemorative Scroll          

• Commemorative Scroll order form

           Contracts of employment and application forms

• Contracts of employment and application forms

           Cultural diversity

• Valuing cultural diversity          

            Curriculum

• National Curriculum  
• Religious Education
• School Worship
• Ethos
• Complaints
• Sex Education
• Citizenship
• Personal Social and Health Education (PSHE)
• Careers Education and guidance
• Godly Play
• Holocaust Memorial Day

            Designation of schools with a Religious Character

• The designation of Church of England academies as having a religious character

            Diocesan Boards of Education/Finance

• Diocesan Boards of Education: incorporated or unincorporated?
• Trusteeship of uniform statutory trust funds and other educational trusts
• Statutory and voluntary: The funding of diocesan work with schools
• The Diocesan Board of Education of the Future
• Dioceses, Pastoral and Mission Measure 2007
• Diocesan Boards of Education Measure 1991  [showing amendments made by the Education and Inspections Act 2006]

            Education Acts

• Education and Inspections Act 2006: National Society Guidance

          Education Sunday   

• Education Sunday web site
• resources        

         Employment

• Use of National Society contracts (with link to National Society employment documents)
• Equal opportunities in Church of England Schools: A guide to the issues in policies and practice

           Equality

• Equal opportunities in Church of England schools – A guide to the issues in policies and practice
• The Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007 Guidance for Schools (8)

           Extended Schools

• Natural partners in service and mission: parishes and extended schools – a quick guide
• Strategy, law, capital and revenue for extended schools

            Faith Schools

• Faith in the System

            Federations

• To Federate or not to Federate (introduction to paper 2)
• How Voluntary Schools can work with trust schools: National Society/DCSF joint guidance

           Foundation Schools

• National Society advice on community schools seeking to adopt church based foundations (trusts): Church of England Voluntary Schools seeking to change category to foundation 
• How voluntary schools can work with trust schools
• A National Society Trust for Foundations Schools including Trust Memorandum and Articles of Association and Terms of Affiliation
• To Federate or not to Federate (introduction to paper 2)

           Freedom of Information

• Freedom of Information Act  and Data Protection Act

          Godly Play

• Godly Play          

         Governors

• Removal of Foundation Governors

         Holocaust Memorial Day           

• Holocaust Memorial Day

          Inspection of Anglican Schools (SIAS)

• Documents relating to Statutory Inspection of Anglican Schools (SIAS)
• SIAS inspection reports
• resources for inspectors
• courses for inspectors
• Quality Assurance audit for schools that have had a Section 48 inspection

            Insurance

• Church Schools Insurance: consolidated guidance

             Miscellaneous

• Miscellaneous           

             National Society newsletter NewS     

• all pdf files of the NS newsletter NewS 

            Publications

• publications including RE, SEN, Church schools, staffing booklets and books        

           School Improvement Partners

• Guidance for DDEs 

            Schools management

• Selecting,appointing and developing staff in church schools 2010
• safer recruitment online training  
• Guidance for schools and model policy for VA schools
• Guidance for Christian organisations and churches from the Archbishops' Council
• Ethos audit for Christian organisations from Faithworks and the Archbishops' Council
• Ethos audit for churches and Christian projects from Faithworks and the Archbishops' Council
• Introduction to Governing and Managing Church Schools
• The children come first
• There are no schools without parents
• Staff: the most important resource in the school
• Governors: a major responsibility
• Curriculum issues
• The schools themselves
• The civil framework for Church schools: national and local government
• The ecclesiastical framework for Church schools: the local and national Church       

          School curriculum

• National Curriculum  
• Religious Education
• School Worship
• Ethos
• Complaints
• Sex Education
• Citizenship
• Personal Social and Health Education (PSHE)
• Careers Education and guidance
• Godly Play
• Holocaust Memorial Day

         School Sites 

• Reverter of school sites after the House of Lords’ decision in Fraser and Fraser v. Canterbury DBF (No.2)
• Registry of Title to school sites
• Site provision, determinations etc for schools in England under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 as amended by the Education and Inspections Act 2006 and revised in respect of new valuations and determinations arrangements October 2009 new revised document October 2009
• Site provision, determinations etc for schools in Wales under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998
• The Transfer Of public value In Voluntary Or Foundation School Sites

            SIAS - Statutory Inspection of Anglican Schools

• Documents relating to Statutory Inspection of Anglican Schools (SIAS)
• SIAS inspection reports
• resources for inspectors
• courses for inspectors
• Quality Assurance audit for schools that have had a Section 48 inspection

            St Christopher's Educational Trust

• application form and information         

            Tax

• Interim Revised Guidance On The Vat Regime In Respect Of Voluntary Aided Schools new revised document October 2009
• HMRC Guidance for Local Authorities and Voluntary Aided Schools – VAT recovery under section 33 VAT Act 1994  new document October 2009

         Teaching in a church school       

• A vocation to teach?
• Training to teach
• Registering as a teacher: the General Teaching Councils
• Teaching in a Church school
• Teaching religious education
• Teachers and collective worship in a Church school
• Spiritual and moral development
• School chaplaincy
• The workforce agreement
• Pocket Prayers for Teachers (information about this National Society publication)
• Pro forma contracts and application forms for Church school posts
• What makes a good school? (article by Canon John Hall, from the Church Times, October 2002)
• Religious education in the life of a Church school (extract from a lecture by Canon John Hall, October 2001)
• Why the Eucharist in school? (article by Canon John Hall, 26 June 2000)
• Supporting teachers from the Parishes se

     Training materials

• Training materials       

           VA Schools

• Model Trust Deed 
• To Federate or not to Federate (introduction to paper 3)
• How voluntary schools can work with trust schools

          Way Ahead report

• overview
• the whole report
• summary
• individual sections