This is legislation made by the General Synod of the Church of England. It has the same force as an Act of Parliament.
The DBEM includes a direction that the governing body of any Church of England school, and the trustees of any Church of England educational endowment held wholly or partly for or in connection with any Church of England school, must obtain and have regard to the advice of the Board for the diocese in which the school is situated before:
- publishing proposals for any prescribed alteration to or discontinuation of the school;
- consulting about proposed admission arrangements for any school year; or
- making any application to, or entering any agreement with, any body or person for or in connection with any disposal (whether by sale or otherwise) of the premises of the school or any part of them.
Article 3(1A) also contains provisions preventing a school from publishing certain proposals under section 19 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 without the consent of the Diocesan Board.
It states that the trustees of any church [of England] educational endowment held wholly or partly for or in connection with a church [of England] school must obtain and have regard to the advice of the Board for the diocese in which the school is situated before making or agreeing to any alteration in the purposes for which the endowment may be applied.
