Diocesan Boards of Education Measure

Lord Bhatia Excerpts

Thursday 22nd April 2021 Lords Chamber

[Lord Bhatia (Non-Afl) [V]]

My Lords, the comments and explanations document produced by the General Synod’s legislative committee explains that:

“The Diocesan Boards of Education Measure updates and replaces the Diocesan Boards of Education Measure 1991 … which provides the legal framework within which the Church of England’s dioceses engage and work with Church schools.”


Providing further explanation, the committee says:

“The Measure enables DBEs to be a statutory committee of their Diocesan Board of Finance and provides clarification of the existing two options for the constitutional form of DBEs”.


The Church of England has established many schools that have educated tens of thousands of students of all races and faiths. All the schools are charitable entities and are properly monitored by the charities board. I recommend that these schools should continue to operate as they have been set up.