{"id":7026,"date":"2010-01-29T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T07:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/?page_id=7026"},"modified":"2020-01-29T07:31:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T07:31:40","slug":"2010-developing-deaneries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/?page_id=7026","title":{"rendered":"2010: Developing Deaneries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deaneries are often seen as a rather nebulous co-ordinating layer of church<br \/>\nmanagement. Parishes generally know their mission and place in the<br \/>\ncommunity. Diocesan Synod is the gateway to and from General Synod. But<br \/>\nwhat is the role of Deanery Synods? They have no legal status, so cannot<br \/>\nenter into contracts or employ staff directly, which is a hindrance to their<br \/>\nmission. At its summer meeting in 2010, the General Synod debated a<br \/>\nmotion from Coventry Diocese aimed at strengthening the deanery\u2019s role,<br \/>\nbut after amendment to the motion the idea was passed to the Archbishops\u2019<br \/>\nCouncil and the House of Bishops for \u2018updated guidance on available<br \/>\noptions\u2019. This year\u2019s biennial National Deaneries Conference, took up this<br \/>\nparticular cudgel as \u201cDeveloping Deaneries\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Download the conference report: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/?ddownload=7027\" title=\"(download)\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ddownload-link id-7027 ext-pdf\">(download)<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deaneries are often seen as a rather nebulous co-ordinating layer of church management. Parishes generally know their mission and place in the community. Diocesan Synod is the gateway to and from General Synod. But what is the role of Deanery Synods? They have no legal status, so cannot enter into contracts or employ staff directly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1935,"parent":1701,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7026","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9I8eL-1Pk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7030,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7026\/revisions\/7030"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}