This electronic handbook contains links to useful sources of information, guidelines and help with a range of church and people issues. This list is being continually revised and updated. Some headings currently do not link to anything, but they are included to show the intention to provide the information very soon.
Area Deans
Area Deans job description and guidelines
Church buildings, maintenance, regulations and churchyards
Advice on funding and fundraising for buildings (external link)
Application for a graveyard memorial (pdf)
Application for Advice (editable form for the DAC secretary)
Archaeological requirements for works on churches and churchyards (external link - pdf)
Asbestos and church properties (external link)
Asbestos and organs (external link - pdf)
Asbestos Campaign (external link to Health and Safety Executive)
Asbestos health and safety issues (external link to Health and Safety Executive)
Bishops guidelines - aumbries
CofE Church Care website
Consecration of new or extending churchyards
Diocesan guidelines application for DAC advice
Diocesan guidelines appointment of architects
Diocesan guidelines banners
Diocesan guidelines bats
Diocesan guidelines bells
Diocesan guidelines church fabric
Diocesan guidelines Disability Discrimination Act
Diocesan guidelines embroidery, linen & hangings
Diocesan guidelines fine art
Diocesan guidelines general directions on faculties
Diocesan guidelines good environmental practice
Diocesan guidelines how to get your faculty
Diocesan guidelines law and your church
Diocesan guidelines memorial tablets in church
Diocesan guidelines monuments in churchyards
Diocesan guidelines paint specifications
Diocesan guidelines prepare building project
Diocesan guidelines Quinquennial inspection
Diocesan guidelines sound systems and induction loops
Diocesan guidelines stained glass windows
Diocesan guidelines statement of significance
Diocesan guidelines trees in churchyards
Diocesan guidelines what to do with your Quinquennial Inspection report
Diocesan guidelines window protection
English Heritage Joint Lotteries (external link)
Fire Risk assessment checklist and form (Ecclesiastical Insurance - pdf)
Fire safety - a short guide (external link)
Fire safety - small and medium places of assembly (churches - full guide, pdf 2.3MB - external link)
Fire safety checklist (downloadable pdf 42k - external link)
General guidelines making changes to a listed church (pdf)
Guidance for best practice for treatment of human remains excavated from Christian burial grounds in England (external link)
Guidance on church security (external link)
Guide for Burial Ground Managers (external link)
Health and Safety guidance notes for churches from Ecclesiastical Insurance (external link)
Historic Churches Preservation Trust
Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme
National Churchwatch - safety guidance for churches and people (external link)
Portable Appliance Testing (PAT testing, advice and information - external link)
Safe Use of Ladders and Stepladders (external link - pdf 448KB)
Smoke-free regulations (pdf)
The Work at Height Regulations 2005 (external link - pdf 80KB)
Clergy - vocations, training and CME
Clergy Appointments Advisor (external link)
Clergy sabbaticals - guidance notes (pdf)
Exploring a vocation to ordained ministry (pdf)
Incumbant/curate relations
Information for new ordinands (external link)
Ministerial Development and Review (pdf)
Clergy (and others) - finance and employment
Car loan scheme for clergy and lay workers (external link)
Clergy and licensed lay workers - pensions and divorce questions (large external download)
Clergy and licensed lay workers - pensions questions answered (large external download)
Clergy childcare voucher scheme (external link)
Clergy deployment, remuneration and conditions of service (external link)
Clergy Discipline Measure - code of practice (external link)
Clergy Discipline Measure 2003 - complaints of misconduct - general information (external link)
Clergy expenses and reimbursement (external link)
Clergy maternity/paternity/adoption leave
Clergy parental benefits (external link)
Clergy pay and conditions (information including rates of pay, taxation and parochial expenses - external link)
Clergy Pensions - the Way Forward (consultation report - external link)
Clergy sickness - statutory notice form (external link)
Clergy sickness - what to do
Clergy tax guidelines for completing Tax Return (external link)
Diocesan Grants Manual
Guidelines for the professional conduct of the clergy (external link)
Inland Revenue clergy working expenses agreement (external link)
Recruitment of ex-offenders policy
Clergy (general)
A guide to good practice for working agreements
Chaplaincy
Clergy marriage breakdown
Clergy retirement housing booklet (external download)
Clergy retirement housing information (external link)
Guidance for newly appointed parish priests with church schools
House guidance on vacancies (pdf)
Interdiocesan Counselling Service
Parsonage handbook (pdf)
Pastoral support of clergy
Personal safety - advice and positive practical guidance (external link)
Personal safety - advice for clergy, churches and others from National Churchwatch (external link)
Personal safety - clergy safety - advice from the Diocese of London (external link)
Retired clergy fees code of practice (pdf)
Retired Clergy, clergy widow/ers pastoral care guidelines (pdf)
Ecumenical
21 steps to encourage local mission and unity (pdf)
A Declaration of Ecumenical Welcome (pdf)
Anglican-Methodist Covenant - the Text (pdf)
Applying Canon B 43 in the context of the Anglican-Methodist Covenant (pdf)
Check list - for the application of Canon B43 (pdf)
Churches designated under the Sharing of Church Buildings Act (pdf)
Churches in relationship with the Church of England (pdf)
Code of Practice for Canons B43 and B44 (pdf)
Ecumenical participation in Ordinations (pdf)
Finance and LEPs - good practice (pdf)
Greater Manchester Churches Together
How any CofE parish can share worship with Christians of other traditions (pdf)
How dioceses can authorise ministers of other churches for work in single-congregation LEPs (pdf)
How the Church of England shares in Local Ecumenical Partnership with other churches - Canon B44 (pdf)
Involvement of other churches in the life of Church of England parishes (pdf)
Joint Confirmations - guidelines for good practice (pdf)
Local Ecumenical Projects - Canon B44 (pdf)
Relations with other churches - Canon B43 (pdf)
Salvation Army and Quakers - guidelines 2005 (pdf)
Summary of Canons B1 to B42 (pdf)
When ministers occupy houses belonging to other denominations (pdf)
Guidelines for pastoral practice and administration
Admission of baptised children to Holy Communion before confirmation
Anglican Sources for tracing your Family History (external link)
Archbishops Certificate in Youth Work (Equipping document - pdf)
Canons of the Church of England (Canon Law - external link)
Child Friendly Church Award (pdf)
Child Protection - Protecting All God's Children (House of Bishops Report 2004, external link - pdf 4.3MB )
Child Protection what to do and who to contact in an emergency
Child Protection: frequently asked questions from the Churches Child Protection Service (pdf 147KB)
Children First Child Protection policy and procedure
Church copyright and performing rights (external link - pdf 4.3MB)
Church licensing laws
Church or parish halls - model hiring agreement for PCCs
Church Representation Rules 2006 (an essential guide to church rules - external link to purchase)
Churchwarden's Measure 2001 - a brief guide (external download)
Data Protection a guide for parishes (pdf 22KB)
Data Protection guidance (Truro diocese - pdf 66KB)
Duties of churchwardens
Handbook for Churchwardens and Parochial Church Councils (useful overview of church law and regulations - external link to purchase)
Keep or Bin? care of parish records
Marriage in church after divorce (external link)
Marriage in church after divorce - explanatory leaflet for inquirers (pdf 23KB)
Marriage in church after divorce - House of Bishops advice to clergy (pdf 138KB)
New premises licensing regulations
Parish Share system
Parochial fees for 2007 (pdf 80KB)
The Charities Act and the PCC - 3rd edition 2006 (external link - pdf 970KB)
The practice of confirmation
Worker Employment Guidelines (pdf)
Miscellaneous
Flu pandemic
Manchester Diocesan Synod Standing Orders (pdf)
Pastoral Issues
A place of refuge - a positive approach to asylum seekers and refugees in the UK
Alcohol - advice
Archdeaconry Healing Advisors (pdf)
Asylum seekers - advice
Baptism
Bereavement - advice
Civil partnerships
Deliverance ministry
Drugs - advice
Families and parenting - advice
Gambling - advice
Gay and lesbian - advice
HIV and AIDS - advice
Housing and homelessness - advice
Marriage and divorce - advice
Mental health - advice
Missing persons - advice
Pastoral care of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people
Problem phone calls - advice (pdf)
Promoting a Safe Church (Policy for safeguarding adults in the Church of England 2006, external link - pdf)
Protecting All God's Children (House of Bishops Report 2004, external link - pdf)
Reception of Roman Catholics
Responding to Domestic Abuse (Guidelines for those with pastoral responsibility 2006, external link - pdf)
Sexual abuse - advice
Worship
Administration of Holy Communion by lay people and Extended Communion
Admission of baptized children to Communion before Confirmation (pdf)
New Licensing Liturgy (pdf)
Pro forma for confirmation candidate returns (pdf)
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