Would future headteachers have to be in “holy orders”?
Answer – No! Only one of the 118 headteachers of Church of England schools in this diocese is a priest. Diocesan advice is that practising Christians (but not necessarily Anglicans) be appointed to headteacher and deputy headteacher posts, but this is not a legal requirement and only the Governing Body has the power to appoint staff, including the headteacher. Many headteachers at Church of England schools in this diocese belong to other denominations. All staff would, as now, be expected to support the ethos of the school, which would not be changed. Q9 Would the school cease to be as multi-cultural as it currently is, if the Secretary of State designates it as a Church of England school? Answer – No. Church of England schools are as culturally and racially mixed as most others, sometimes more so. In Liverpool, for example, Archbishop Blanch and St Hilda’s Church of England high schools have respectively 3 times and twice as many pupils for whom English is a second language as the Blu
