Diocesan Boards of Education Measure 2021

13 Safeguarding

(1) In section 5(2) of the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016 (persons required to have due regard to the House of Bishops’ guidance), after paragraph (f) insert “;

(g) the Diocesan Board of Education for a diocese (see subsection (2A))”.

(2) After section 5(2) of that Measure insert—

“(2A) The reference in subsection (1)(g) to the Diocesan Board of Education for a diocese is a reference—

(a) where the Board is a company or charitable incorporated organisation, to the Board itself;

(b) where the Board is an unincorporated body, to a member of the Board;

(c) where the Diocesan Board of Finance for the diocese is designated as the Diocesan Board of Education under section 3 of the Diocesan Boards of Education Measure 2021, to a member of the committee established by virtue of that section.”