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The Church of Scotland 2010 General Assembly Published in 2010 by the CHURCH of SCOTLAND ASSEMBLY ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE 121 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 4YN Scottish Reformation 450th anniversary The Church of Scotland 2010 General Assembly Published in 2010 by THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ASSEMBLY ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE 121 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 4YN © The Church of Scotland Assembly Arrangements Committee 2010 ISBN 978-0-86153-611-5 British Library Catalogue in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library All copy keyed by the Church of Scotland Designed and produced by APS Group, 7-9 North St David Street, Edinburgh EH2 1AW Indexer Peter B Gunn Embargoed until 21 April 2010 Authorised for official use within the Church of Scotland only, and not for publication until 21 April 2010 CONTENTS Council of Assembly . 1/1 Housing and Loan . 15/1 Church and Society Council . 2/1 Church of Scotland Investors Trust . 16/1 Ministries Council . 3/1 Iona Community Board . 17/1 Mission and Discipleship Council . 4/1 Nomination Committee . 18/1 Social Care Council . 5/1 Panel on Review and Reform. 19/1 Assembly Arrangements Committee . 6.1/1 Committee on The Parish Development Fund . 20/1 Central Services Committee . 6.2/1 The Church of Scotland Pension Trustees . 21/1 Committee on Ecumenical Relations . 6.3/1 Returns to Overtures . 22/1 Legal Questions Committee . 6.4/1 National Youth Assembly 2008 . 23/1 Safeguarding Committee . 6.5/1 Special Committee on the Review of Charity Governance . 24/1 World Mission Council . 7/1 Special Commission Anent the Third Article HIV/Aids Project Group . 7.1/1 Declaratory of the Constitution of the Church of Scotland in Matters Spiritual . 25/1 Chaplains to Her Majesty’s Forces . 8/1 Joint Report of the Mission and Discipleship and The Church of Scotland Trust . 9/1 Ministries Council on the Emerging Church . 26/1 Church Hymnary Trustees. 10/1 Minutes of the Commission of the General Assembly, November 2009 . 27/1 Church Without Walls Planning Group . 11/1 Minutes of the Judicial Commission Delegation of The General Assembly . 12/1 May 2010 . 28/1 General Trustees . 13/1 Index Church of Scotland Guild . 14/1 1 COUNCIL OF ASSEMBLY May 2010 PROPOSED DELIVERANCE The General Assembly 1. Receive the Report. 2. Agree the proposals set out in the Report for continuing the work of the Parish Development Fund. (Section 1.2) 3. Agree to disband the Support and Services Council with immediate effect. (Section 1.3) 4. Agree that the Ecumenical Relations Committee should sit within the Department of the General Assembly and that the Ecumenical Officer should be in attendance at meetings of the Council of Assembly. (Section 1.4) 5. Approve the proposals set out in the Report for continuing the work of the HIV/AIDS Project as the “Church of Scotland HIV Programme”. (Section 1.5) 6. Appoint the Rev John Chalmers as Principal Clerk of the General Assembly with effect from 1 July 2010 and as Associate Principal Clerk from the commencement of the General Assembly. (Section 2.4) 7. Appoint Mrs Pauline Weibye as Secretary to the Council of Assembly with effect from 1 July 2010 and as Associate Secretary with immediate effect. (Section 2.5) 8. Agree that the Secretary to the Council of Assembly should be a corresponding member of the General Assembly in terms of Standing Order 32 (2). (Section 2.6) 9. Receive the 2009 Report and Accounts of the Unincorporated Councils and Committees of the General Assembly. (Section 5.5.1) 10. Agree that the review of the arrangement that the Convener of the Panel of Review and Reform is a member of the Council of Assembly be deferred until the completion of the Panel’s work on a new Presbytery structure. (Section 7) 11. Agree that the Council in terms of section 22 of its remit should be the body to deal with issues arising in relation to trust bodies to which the Church of Scotland appoints members. (Section 9) REPORT 1. Governance opportunity is provided at every meeting for bringing 1.1 The Council’s Monitoring, Co-ordinating and matters before the Council. More detailed scrutiny of Evaluating Role budgets and requests for replacement or additional 1.1.1 The Council meets monthly except in January, staffing are first undertaken by the Finance or Staffing May and July and each meeting’s agenda includes Group as appropriate. reports from Councils and Committees which come within the monitoring, evaluating and co-ordinating 1.1.2 It may be of interest to commissioners to see the remit of the Council. Through a rota system Councils basis of discussion used by the Council in its engagement make substantial presentations twice a year, though the with the other Councils and Committees. This is set out 1/2 COUNCIL OF ASSEMBLY in the following series of requests/questions to which 1.2.2 The Fund was set up in 2002 as a five year project written answers are provided in advance: and received initial funding of £3 million (£1 million in year (i) Please give details of current areas of work and/or one and £0.5 million in each of the next four years) from the reports received at your last Executive or Committee reserves of the Mission and Renewal Fund. In addition the meeting. Fund received a proportion of a levy on the sale of church (ii) Please highlight current priorities. properties from the General Trustees. In 2006 the General (iii) Please indicate any other areas which you would Assembly agreed to continue the Fund until 2010. draw to the attention of the Council of Assembly. 1.2.3 In anticipation of this cut off date, a joint report (iv) What are the possible effects of your work on other from the Council of Assembly, the Fund Committee and Councils or Committees? the Mission and Discipleship Council was presented to last (v) Please identify any issues which concern you as year’s Assembly. This recommended that the Fund should charity trustees. continue within the Mission and Discipleship Council. (vi) Do you anticipate working within your annual However, the General Assembly referred the matter back budget? In particular, are there any issues arising to the Council of Assembly in the terms noted above. from the most recent set of management accounts? (vii) Please advise on progress towards achieving a break 1.2.4 What lay behind last year’s proposal was a even budget. concern by the Council of Assembly to control central (viii) Have you any staffing issues? costs. Clearly the Fund could not be supported (ix) Have you had or do you anticipate any significant indefinitely from the reserves of the Mission and Renewal changes in the membership of your Committee? What Fund. Indeed, over the past three years this core funding succession plans do you have in place to deal with has been at a level of £250k per annum compared with changes eg in the convenership/vice-convenership? the original £1 million in its first year and £0.5 million (x) Risk Register: Please indicate any change to your in each of the four succeeding years. The Council was Committee’s Risk Register and indicate when the also concerned, at a time when budgets are under Register was last reviewed. pressure, to ensure that all areas of work were included (xi) What are the particular needs or opportunities of within the prioritisation exercise in which Councils are your Committee that you would wish to highlight to regularly engaged. The Council is also charged in its the Council of Assembly? remit “to keep under review the central administration of the Church, with particular regard to resolving issues 1.1.3 Through discussion of the above areas, with follow of duplication of resources.” up as required, the Council takes the opportunity to ask the questions which the Assembly itself has neither the 1.2.5 Against this background the Council has time nor the detailed information to ask during the annual engaged in continuing consultation with the Fund with presentation of reports. a view to securing its future. During the course of these consultations the Ministries Council, having regard to its 1.2 Parish Development Fund work on Priority Areas Staffing and Emerging Ministries as 1.2.1 Last year’s General Assembly instructed the well as its engagement with Faith in Community Scotland, Council to consult the Fund Committee with a view to its offered to host the Parish Development Fund with a view continuation with its present structure after 2010 and to to streamlining the administration of these Funds. These report to the General Assembly of 2010. Funds will together total around £1million and have the 1 COUNCIL OF ASSEMBLY 1/3 potential to attract significant grants from trusts and other through the General Treasurer, Principal Clerk and funding agencies. Solicitor. This provides a mechanism for a two way flow of information. In addition the Council has agreed to 1.2.6 Under this arrangement the sum of £300K, including co-opt an Assembly appointed member of the Legal the General Trustees levy, will be “ring fenced” for the work Questions Committee, nominated by that Committee, of the Parish Development Fund for each of the years 2011 to its Governance Group. The one body which is not so and 2012. The Fund Committee will continue to oversee represented is the Ecumenical Relations Committee but the distribution of funds but will do so as a Consultative the arrangements detailed below address this situation. Forum within the Support and Development Area of the The Council of Assembly will continue to invite the Ministries Council. The Convener will become a member ex Conveners and Secretaries of these Committees to attend officio of that Council, and the Fund staff will become part the Council on a rota basis each year, and Conveners will of the Ministries Council staff team.
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