ABSTRACT
The great majority of ‘church schools’ or ‘faith schools’ were originally founded by particular Christian denominations, religious orders or other single-faith communities. A case will be made for consideration of the potential advantages of different Christian denominations or traditions joining together to form ‘joint church schools’. The term ‘joint church school’ will be defined as the type of school formed when two Christian church traditions join together to found and develop a maintained school, admitting primarily, but not necessarily exclusively, members of the founding traditions.
