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How the Service operates
The Lancaster Diocesan Board of Education and Formation is an agency of the Diocese of Lancaster and works on behalf of and is responsible to the Bishop and Trustees of the Diocese. As a diocesan agency its work must be integral to and consistent with the educational mission of the Diocese, approved by the Bishop and Trustees.
The purpose of the Board of Education and Formation is to advise the Bishop and Trustees on strategies and policies relating to education and formation agree action and oversee the management of the Diocesan Education Service.
Members: The Right Reverend Michael Campbell OSA, Bishop of Lancaster; Rev Christopher Loughran (Chair); Canon Luiz Ruscillo (Head of Service); Rev Michael Docherty (Deputy Head of Service); Rev Michael Murphy; Rev Anthony Walsh; Deacon Michael Harrison; Victoria Ashfield; Christine Smith; Trudi Denham; Simon Gillespie; Len Hampson; Rosalind Wilson (Minutes Secretary).
Contact: educationservice@lancasterrcdiocese.org.uk
Under the guidance of the Diocesan Board of Education and Formation the Education Service functions as an integrated unit with responsibilities for all aspects of the diocesan educational mission in:
- 99 parishes
- 73 primary schools
- 11 secondary schools
- 1 sixth form college
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