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- The deanery is a virtual organisation whose primary role is to facilitate and support educational governance. Deaneries have a regional footprint that encompasses several cities and hospitals as well as medical schools and universities, because medical education is delivered through a variety of education providers.
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Jun 12, 2012 · Deaneries undertake quality management of education processes and programmes on behalf of the General Medical Council (GMC). They also supervise the GMC’s national training surveys and ensure that all posts have GMC approval and all trainees are in approved posts while out of programme.
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Deaneries differ in size, but most are made of around 20 to 30 parishes grouped together in benefices. Deaneries, their leaders and their synods have an important role in shaping ministry and mission in our diocese and, through synodical government, in the Church of England.
• Deaneries have power to collaborate with other institutions • Deaneries can coordinate resources and activities for church’s mission • Deaneries have potential to bring human and financial resources to consider mission beyond parish boundaries • Deaneries can share prayer and encouragement
A deanery meeting plays many functions. There are aspects of a meeting that are predominately about building relationships or sharing information, this may mean that presentations and conversations in Deaneries are focussed on absorbing or sharing information.
- What is a deanery for?
- Shared Leadership
- The Deanery Purposes
- Mutually Supportive Relationships
- Effective Mission Planning
- Serving and Transforming Communities
- Deanery Synod
- Resourcing
Deaneries play a significant part in the life of the Church of England. A fully functioning deanery is so much more than the work of the Deanery Synod. Deaneries provide an opportunity for parishes to come together and support one another in ways than are not possible across a whole diocese. They can lift the horizon of clergy and lay people beyo...
The sharing of leadership begins with the cure of souls in each parish being shared between the Bishop and the incumbent. It continues with each PCC sharing responsibility for the life of the parish with the incumbent. The Deanery Leadership Team will have between 4 and 6 members including the four key roles of Area Dean, Lay Chair, Deanery Secreta...
Our Deaneries will be characterised by three overlapping and complementary purposes. Different deaneries will have varying needs over time, and will look and feel different, but our hope is that each deanery is characterised by:
Churches collaborate in offering a range of opportunities for worship – including new and creative ones. Diversity is seen as encouraging. Mutual support is of particular importance during vacancies. Hosting healthy support forums for different groups – not just Clergy chapters, but as appropriate for Readers, PCC treasurers and secretaries, or Par...
Taking an area view of the deanery to consider churchgoing and community; and to develop plans at a deanery level. These plans honour and encourage effective local initiatives, and identify ways of enabling them to be even more effective on a wider canvas. Developing specific initiatives and projects – both one off events and ongoing commitments, ...
Understanding and addressing social issues across the deanery, for example through food-banks, debt services, dementia support. Supporting parishes and benefices with the tools and training to engage effectively with local communities and their specific needs, in both rural and urban settings. Enabling straightforward partnering opportunities with ...
The primary role of the Deanery Synod will be to work with the Deanery Leadership Team in enabling the deanery to flourish in these three purposes. Deanery Synods have business that they are legally required to do – but not that much! An effective Deanery Synod will be the coming together of a church across an area – sharing joys and sorrows, fi...
As well as meeting expenses of ofice, each Deanery Leadership Team will be offered a contribution towards the cost of administrative support. Additional support will be available to help with training and deanery based mission initiatives. This will come from trust funds and from reallocating budgets so there is no additional cost to Parish Share. ...
In the Church of England, a Deanery Synod is a gathering convened by the Area Dean and/or the Joint Lay Chair of the Deanery Synod. It consists of all clergy licensed to a benefice within the deanery, plus elected lay members.
1.1 Deanery plans are not mandatory, recognising that not all Dioceses or deaneries would wish to use them, but this guidance aims to show how they can be used to enhance and support wider strategic planning.
