Schools - Aided and Controlled Schools
Aided and Controlled Schools What's the difference?
Last Updated on Monday, 12 April 2010 00:53
Aided and Controlled Schools What's the difference?
This booklet has been prepared by the Derby Diocesan Board of Education for the guidance of schools and their governing bodies.
The following document includes a list of both VA and VC schools
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Church Aided Schools
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The Diocesan Board of Education has close links with the 32 Voluntary Aided Schools, providing advice on Religious Education, Collective Worship, legal issues, issues of trust.
In addition it promotes and manages building and repair schemes. The church appoints a majority of the governing body (the foundation governors) and encourages aided schools to appoint staff who have a strong Christian commitment.
Through following their Local Agreed Syllabus, aided schools are encouraged to offer children teaching based around the truth of the Christian message and to help them understand and respect the religious beliefs of others.
Aided schools are given financial assistance by the Government's Department for Education and Skills but the governors are responsible for meeting the costs of external repairs and new buildings. In practice the Diocesan Board of Education uses its own trust funds to offer financial assistance and may meet the full cost of a scheme through a grant.
Church Controlled Schools
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The Diocesan Board of Education has developed closer links with the 78 controlled schools in recent years but does not have the same responsibilty for them as the aided schools. They are controlled by the Local Education Authority and the Church appoints only a minority of the governors (the foundation governors). When the 1944 Education Act allowed the parochial, endowed and national schools a choice of aided or controlled status these were the schools where the managers no longer had the funds or the will to maintain them. They became more like county schools but with the proviso that Collective Worship had to reflect their denominational foundation. Controlled schools can now apply to become aided under the 1998 School Standards and Framework Act. A number are actively seeking a change of status.
