NEWS / Statement in response to the announcement on academies in the Chancellor's Budget speech today from the Rev Nigel Genders, Chief Education Officer for the Church of England.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, will deliver a message of hope to school pupils across the country in the first assembly at Oak National Academy, it was announced today.

The Church of England has made two new senior appointments within its National Education Team to lead the new framework for Statutory Inspection of Anglican and Methodist Schools (SIAMS) which comes into effect from September 2021.

NEWS / CofE welcomes appointment of new IICSA chair.

Inspections for Church of England and Methodist schools will be paused to allow schools to focus on Covid-19 mitigations and for safety reasons

NEWS / A senior manager at the CofE's National Church Institutions based in Westminster has been recognised by two national LGBT award bodies.

NEWS /  The Church of England Pensions Board, together with investors with assets totalling nearly £50bn, has filed a shareholder resolution at Rio Tinto calling on the company to review and fully disclose its relationships with industry bodies.

The Church Commissioners for England today reiterated support for the climate-related shareholder resolution, filed against the board of ExxonMobil, and calls on Exxon not to block the resolution going to a vote in 2020. 

NEWS / The independent report into the Church's handling of its 2007-9 Past Cases Review, PCR, has been published today

The Church of England has completed a review of more than 75,000 files with the publication of its national Past Cases Review 2 report