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The whole platform,
one page at a time.

The Diocese Management System covers over 25 operational areas. This index takes you to the deep-dives — and to the pages that answer the questions a board paper will ask.

Feature deep-dives

Inside the areas that decide the deal.

Dedicated pages for the deepest parts of the product, from the core record outward.

The core record

CRM & engagement

One shared timeline of every note, email, call and task — with cross-team visibility, dedupe and self-updating segments.

Compliance

Safeguarding & DBS

DBS tracking with escalation, a training matrix that follows the role, automated reminders and sealed casework.

Insight

Reporting & dashboards

39 role-based dashboards, 200+ metrics, a self-service report builder, pivot tables, maps and forecasting.

Differentiator

AI assistant

Plain-English answers across ~48 tools — with PII redacted before any AI call and permissions enforced per user.

Money

Finance & Parish Share

The Parish Share ledger, drill-down statements treasurers check themselves, Gift Aid, expenses, trusts and forecasting.

Buildings

Church care, DAC & faculties

The quinquennial written in the system with an offline survey app, agendas and minutes generated from the casework, seven inspection cycles per church, and heritage constraints synced automatically.

Education

Church schools

One record per school, foundation seats and vacancies, SIAMS and Ofsted cycles, viability on roll and deprivation, and the school estate’s carbon.

The spine

Places & property

Episcopal area to church, plus parsonages, glebe, land titles and boundaries — the register every other area hangs off.

Everything else

Cases, policies & the back office

Long-running cases, PCC policy adoption, the document store with retention, surveys, events, the knowledge base and the help desk.

Environment

Net Zero & environment

Carbon accounting per building, meter readings from the portal, EFT pre-fill, Eco Church sync and the Net Zero map.

Connected

Integrations & Microsoft 365

Graph email, Teams calling, Azure AD sign-on and 20+ national datasets synced automatically.

Trust

GDPR, security & audit

Data subject requests, retention policies, access reviews, layered permissions and the full audit trail.

Efficiency

Workflow & automation

“When X happens, do Y” without a developer — triggers, actions, approval flows and playbooks.

Ministry

Clergy lifecycle, vacancies & HR

Roles and postings, templated vacancy workflows, succession planning, licences, MDR and HR self-service.

Strategy

Pastoral planning & reorganisation

The Interactive Pastoral Planner for what-if scenarios, then scheme and deanery-plan lifecycles with consultation on the record.

Foresight

Forecasting & scenario planning

Ten-year projections over attendance, finance, clergy supply and school places — a retirement-wave model, scenario sliders and planning goals drawn against the trend.

Deployment

Clergy workforce planning

The establishment register your DBF actually funds, a ten-year trajectory with role-level suggestions, and reorganisation proposals that freeze the evidence they were discussed on.

Programmes

Funded programmes & project delivery

DIP, SDF and diocesan investment programmes end to end — a real project planner with weighted roll-up, success measures with forecasts and stale-reading flags, a RAG portfolio and two-click board packs.

Compliance

Statutory compliance

Parochial fees, electoral roll and APCM, synod elections, the Patronage Measure clock, registers, the quinquennial cycle, closures, glebe and the diocesan filing calendar.

The essentials

How it works, and who uses it.

Walk-through

How DMS works

The platform end-to-end — what we replace, where we sit, what your teams see.

Parish-facing

The Parish Portal

30+ self-service tools for churchwardens, treasurers and PCC secretaries — with 2FA on every login.

Companion product

ParishGuard

Parish website compliance audits, scores and policy generation — running on the same platform, sharing the same parish records.

Deciding

For the board paper.

In practice

DMS in practice

Seven before/after vignettes — what changes for the teams doing the work.

Year one

Implementation story

Phase 0 to Phase 4: what a roll-out actually looks like, by quarter.

The boundary

What the national systems don’t do

Where the Online Faculty System, Parish Returns, the national safeguarding systems and Crockford stop — and what the diocese is left holding.

Objections

FAQ & objections

The ten questions diocesan secretaries actually ask — with candid answers.

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