Board of Education
This is a statutory body established under the Diocesan Boards of Education Measure 2021.
The functions of the Diocesan Board of Education include: the promotion of education consistent with the faith and practice of the Church of England; the promotion of religious education and religious worship in schools and academies; the promotion of Church schools and academies in the diocese; and advice to school governors on any matter affecting Church schools and academies.
The Board meets three times a year and has four subgroups / committees:
- School performance and staff development group (meets three times a year)
- Christian Distinctiveness group (meets three times a year)
- School Estates and Capital Funding (meets six times a year)
- Executive committee (meets three times a year)
DBE Members (From January 2019)
| Name | Status | Committee / Group | |
| Mark Allbrook (Chair) | Bishop (or nominated rep) | All (Chair of Board and Executive Committee) | |
| The Rt Revd Dr Alan Winton (Bishop of Thetford) | Bishop’s nomination | Exec. | |
| Dr Father Harri Williams | Bishop’s nomination | Christian Distinctiveness | |
| Revd Derek McClean | Elected | School perf. & staff dev. | |
| Jennie Vere | Elected | Christian Distinctiveness (Chair) and Exec. | |
| Teresa Osborne | Elected | Christian Distinctiveness | |
| Elected | SECF | |
| Elected | School perf. & staff dev. | |
| Letitia Nwobodo | Co-opted | School perf. & staff dev. | |
| Helen Laflin (Headteacher Blundeston VC Primary | Co-opted | School perf. & staff dev. | |
| Mat Tuckwood (Headteacher Whitefriars primary academy) | Co-opted | Distinctiveness | |
| John Neenan (Headteacher – St Michael’s, Aylsham) | Co-opted | SECF | |
| John Crowley (Norfolk Children’s Services) | Co-opted | School perf. & staff dev. | |
| Jill Wakefield | Co-opted | SECF |