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Mission and Pastoral Conferences 2018

Get insights into Deanery Plans, legal status, and key conditions for preparing and approving plans. Learn the roles of DMPC and Deanery in effective plan development and implementation. Explore essential features and scope of Deanery Plans.

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Mission and Pastoral Conferences 2018

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  1. Mission and Pastoral Conferences 2018 Deanery plans

  2. Deanery Plans • Legal status for deanery plans • What qualifies as a deanery plan? • Who prepares a Deanery Plan? • Legal Consequences – • Consultation provisions • Presumption in favour • Commissioners’ Guidance • Features of a deanery plan • Role of DMPC • Role of Deanery

  3. What Qualifies as a Deanery Plan? Four conditions • Consultation with interested parties • Approval by Deanery Synod • Meetings for any dispossessed office-holders • Approval by DMPC

  4. Who should prepare a Deanery Plan? • Measure doesn’t specify • Deanery (via Deanery Pastoral Committee) • DMPC (via a Sub-Committee) • DMPC/Deanery partnership

  5. Approved Deanery Plans – Legal Consequences • Proposals must be “substantially the same” as in deanery plan • Omit S6/21 consultation stage • Presumption in favour – unless there are material considerations

  6. Material Considerations • Plan based on incorrect or out-dated information • Process flaws in developing plan • Significant opposition among i.p.s or deanery synod members • Matters (which may be matters of detail) not covered in the plan

  7. Deanery Plans Essential/Desirable Features • It should relate to the wider Diocesan mission planning context • Have regard to any diocesan-wide parameters set by the Bishop, Diocesan Synod and DMPC • Be comprehensive in scope • Be evidence based • Have the widest possible engagement with and ownership by clergy and parishes and community bodies

  8. Scope of Deanery Plans (1) What area can they cover? • One or more deaneries • Part of a deanery • Parts of more than deanery

  9. Scope of Deanery Plans (2) • Developing lay ministry • Local Ecumenical Partnerships • Audit of churches and other church property • Sharing church buildings with other denominations • Use of church schools

  10. Scope of Deanery Plans (3) • Church plants or Fresh Expressions • Access to grant funding or other resources • Scope for co-operation with community bodies • Identifying of initiatives better carried out at deanery rather than parochial level • Simplifying administration through joint councils

  11. Evidence - Examples • Population by parish/benefice • Potential housing development • Deprivation statistics • Student populations • Weekly attendance • Parish share records • Repair costs for churches based on the latest QIRs • Presence of other denominations and faiths • Number of C of E church schools and availability of their premises

  12. Role of DMPC • Setting the context/parameters/timeframe • Providing leadership and support/developing local leadership capacity • Encouraging consistency of approach • Identifying the interested parties • Providing information (e.g. statistics or planning policies) for an evidence based plan • Approving and monitoring plans

  13. Role of Deanery • Providing local leadership • Encouraging participation in formulation of the plan • Providing locally held information • Formally approving the plan

  14. Scenarios Workshop

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