Church Appointees on Scotland’s Education Committees (as of Summer 2015)

Church Appointees on Scotland’s Education Committees (as of Summer 2015)

We are in the course of updating this information to Spring 2017. We have confirmation from all Councils who have responded to date that the Church representatives do have the right to vote in the Education Committees that they sit on.

We give here the names, Church affiliations, and appointments procedure, of the Church Appointees on all of Scotland’s Council Education Committees, as determined by Freedom of Information requests during Summer 2015. Church of Scotland and Catholic appointees are appointed by their Church hierarchies and Councils have no chioce in the matter. Procedures vary by Council for selecting the Church allowed to nominate the third appointee.

Notes on appointment procedures:
(a) Church was sole applicant in response to advertisement (8 Councils)
(b) Position vacant, pending reply from nominating Church (2 Councils)
(c) No replies to advertisement. Sitting member agreed to continue in place (1 Council)
(d) Church invited to nominate after initially selected Church (Episcopalian) failed to do so (1 Council)
(e) No third religious representative (in case of Orkney, no religious representative at all); no reason given. (2 Councils)
(f) Two Church of Scotland representatives, in violation of the law (2 Councils)
(g) Self-nominated; Church not stated (1 Council)
(h) Appointed in 2003; religious representatives remain in place until they resign (1 Council)

(i) Representative, asked to nominate an individual from among several Churches of his denomination, nominated himself (1 Council)
(j) Representative, having lost his position as councillor in election, cited Boys Brigade experience and nominated himself (1 Council)

(k) Only religious body considered eligible by Council (1 Council)
(l) Applications invited by newspaper advertisement or similar (15 Councils)
(m) Applications invited by direct contact between Council and Churches; as far as we know, no other advertising (1 Council)
(n) Church chosen by Council to nominate on the e basis of demographics (4 Councils)
(o) Church Chosen by Council on the basis of rotation among local Churches (1 Council)
(p) Representative (or nominating Church) chosen from among applicants by a panel or group representing local religious organisations (6 Councils)
(q) Church chosen by lot from among applicants (1 Council)
(r) Church chosen directly by Council members or officials from among more than one applicant (4 Councils)
(s) 3rd representative says he can understand criticisms of system; http://www.scotsman.com/news/education/calls-for-religious-reps-to-leave-education-panels-1-3006092 (1 Council)

(t) The three religious representatives sit with 5 elected councillors to form the Council’s Cabinet (1 Council)
(u) Representative rejects evolution (7 Councils)
(v) Representative believe the Earth is less than 10,000 years old (7 Councils)
Representative’s Church proclaims its belief in the eternal conscious punishment of non-believers (5 Councils)
(x) Believes in healing by laying on of hands (1 Council)
(y) Statement of specific beliefs has now been removed from Church website (1 Council)

Local Authority	Church of Scotland appointment	Catholic Church appointment	Other	Notes (see above)
Aberdeen	Reverend Edward McKenna November 2012 –	Mrs Irene Wischik November 2011 –	Ms Anne Tree Episcopal Church August 2012 –	l, p
Aberdeenshire	Dr Eleanor Anderson May 2012 – May 2017	Mrs Mary Nelson April 2015 – May 2017	Dr Ian Findlay Aberdeenshire Interfaith Group May 2012 – May 2017	p
Angus	David Adams	Bill Simpson	Georgina Maille Episcopal Church June 2013 –	l
Argyll and Bute	Mr William Crossan	Father David Connor	[Episcopalian; nomination awaited]	b, n
Clackmannanshire	Reverend Sang Y Cha The Manse 37A Claremont Alloa FK10 2DG	Father Michael Freyne St Bernadette’s RC Church Baingle Brae Tullibody FK10 2SG	Pastor David Fraser Alva Baptist Church The Green (off Brook Street) Alva FK12 5JQ	n, I, u, v, w
Dumfries and Galloway	Mr Robert McQuistan June 2012 –	Reverend William McFadden June 2012 –	Canon Robin Paisley Episcopal Church June 2012 –	p
Dundee	Miss Kathleen Mands May 2012 – 2017	Monsignor Kenneth McCaffrey May 2012 – 2017	Mr Bashir Chohan Dundee Central Mosque May 2012 – 2017	c, l
East Ayrshire	Ian Rennie May 2012 – May 2017	Maria Dorrian May 2012 – May 2017	Andrew Keachie Salvation Army May 2012 – May 2017	a, l
East Dunbartonshire	Reverend Barbara Jarvie May 2012 – May 2017	Reverend Paul Milarvie May 2012 – May 2017	Mr John Jackson Baptist Church September 2012 – May 2017	a, l
East Lothian	Mrs Marjorie Goldsmith January 2006 –	Mr Michael McHugh February 2011 –	Mr Stephen Bunyan Episcopal Church May 2003 –	h
East Renfrewshire	Ms Mary McIntyre 2012 – May 2017	Father Thomas Boyle 2012 – May 2017	Dr Frank Angell Jewish Community 2012 – May 2017	k
Edinburgh	A. Craig Duncan	Ted Brack	The Robin Chapel Episcopalian; Rev Thos Coupar	l, p, s
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	Reverend Hugh Stewart October 2014 – May 2017	Father Michael Macdonald October 2014 – May 2017	Mr Murdo Macleod Free Church of Scotland May 2012 – May 2017Reverend Allan MacCroll Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland June 2013 – May 2017	n
Falkirk	Margaret Coutts September 2003 –	Hector Cairns August 2012 –	Reverend Michael Rollo Evangelical / Pentecostal Alliance February 2004 –	d, u, v, w
Fife	Reverend Hugh D. Steele April 2015 – May 2017	Mr George Haggarty May 2012 – May 2017	Mr Alistair Crockett Cupar Baptist Church May 2012 – May 2017	l, r
Glasgow	Reverend Graham Cartlidge May 2012 – May 2017	Right Reverend Canon Robert Hill January 2013 – May 2017	e	e
Highland	Mr Gordon Smith May 2012 – May 2017	Mrs Margaret McCulloch May 2012 – May 2017	Dr Alan Fraser Free Church of Scotland June 2014 – May 2016	o, u, v, w
Inverclyde	Mr Tom Macdougall September 2014 –	Father Michael McMahon March 2006 –	Reverend Fraser Donaldson Greenock Elim Church September 2012 –	a, l, u, v, w
Midlothian	Mr Victor H. Bourne 55 Newbattle Abbey Crescent Dalkeith	(pending)	Mrs Margaret Harkness Church of Scotland 2 Fowler Crescent Loanhead EH20 9RX	f, t
Moray	Reverend Shuna Dicks May 2012 – May 2017	Elizabeth Hewitt May 2012 – May 2017	Reverend Christopher Ketley Episcopalian	q
North Ayrshire	Elizabeth Higton September 2012 – April 2017	Very Reverend Matthew Canon McManus June 2012 – April 2017	Mark Fraser Bridge Church September 2012 – April 2017	a, l, u, v, x, y
North Lanarkshire	Mr John Maddock	Mr James Duffin	Mr John Love	g, j, l
Orkney	e	e	e	e
Perth and Kinross	Mr Pat Giles August 2011 – May 2017	Mrs Margaret McFarlane January 2013 – May 2017	Mrs Hilary Bridge Scottish Episcopal Church August 2011 – May 2017	m, r
Renfrewshire	Iain Keith May 2012 – May 2017	Reverend Father Thomas H. Boyle May 2012 – May 2017	Reverend Graeme Clark Paisley Action of Churches Together May 2012 – May 2017	l, r
Scottish Borders	Mr Graeme Donald May 2012 – May 2017	Mr Joe Walsh May 2012 – May 2017	[Episcopalian; nomination awaited]	a, b, l
Shetland	Reverend Tom McIntyre September 2011 – May 2017	None (historic reasons?)	Mr Martin Tregonning Shetland Churches Council Trust Ms Radina Mckay Shetland Inter Faith Group July 2012 – May 2017	p
South Ayrshire	Reverend David Gemmell April 2009 –	Phil Davey May 2007 –	Pastor Ian Gall Evangelical February 2014 –	a, l
South Lanarkshire	Reverend Sarah Ross June 2012 –	John Mulligan June 2015 –	Dr Nagy Iskander Westwoodhill Evangelical Church September 2012 –	a, l, u, v
Stirling	Reverend Jennifer Millar 2013 –	Mrs Rose Hart 2012 –	Mrs Jane Morris Episcopal Church 2012 –	n
West Dunbartonshire	Miss Sheila Rennie February 1998 –	Miss Ellen McBride November 2000 –	Mrs Barbara Barnes St Augustine’s Episcopal Church, Dumbarton December 2004 –	a, l
West Lothian	Myra MacPherson June 2007 –	(pending)	Lynne McEwen Church of Scotland May 2012 –	f, p