DBE Services is a company established to support Church schools across six dioceses.
The Diocesan Board of Education has been working together with other DBEs in the North West and has established a joint company to provide a more extensive support for our schools in the region. The new company is called ‘‘DBE Services". It initially involved joint working in a number of areas with Blackburn, Carlisle, Liverpool and Manchester DBEs.; York DBE joined on 1 January 2008. The company is wholly owned by the relevant diocesan organisations and its Board of Directors is composed of the Chairman of the relevant body and the Diocesan Director of Education of each diocese.
In these dioceses are over 470 aided schools and over 850 Church schools in total. By working together, we will have the ability to enhance provision for these schools. Schools will still maintain their link with their own Diocesan Boards of Education.
Most aided schools have seen changes in that we are able to provide an independent consultant alongside the administrative and financial support we have previously provided for building work.
As far as schools in this Diocese are concerned, the only thing you will really notice is that we will be able to offer a wider range of services and occasionally personnel from other DBEs will be involved because they have the relevant expertise.
A major part of working together is to save us all ‘re-inventing the wheel’ and therefore provide more time for new developments.
Any surplus made by the company will be returned to the Diocesan Boards of Education and used to further support Church schools.
Much of the documentation sent out in future from Church House will include the heading ‘DBE Services’ as the way in which we identify our collective work across the region. This development is to support the work of each DBE rather than replace it and you will know that we have already worked together successfully in a number of areas on an informal basis.
One of the packages operated by DBE Services is Total Property Management. This provides a one stop total overview package to deal with all servicing requirements of school buildings.If you would like more information, click here.
