[4] Many VA faith schools belong to diocesan maintenance schemes or other types of funding programme to help them to manage those costs.
In return these schools were increasingly influenced by the state, and were subject to jointly administered inspections.
[22] In 1926, secondary voluntary schools were required to choose between being "grant-aided" by the local authority, or receiving a "direct grant" from central government.
The state contribution to capital works for voluntary aided schools was originally 50%.
[22] By the mid-1970s, under Harold Wilson's second Labour government, most local authorities were in the final stages of reorganising secondary education along comprehensive lines.
A few formerly independent faith schools that had become grant-maintained in the early 1990s also converted to voluntary aided status at that time.
[31] In November 2012, the interpretation of the Education Act 2011, which appeared to prioritise the creation of academies over maintained schools, was tested by a judicial review, which upheld the decision of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames to establish voluntary aided schools, St Richard Reynolds Catholic College, without first seeking proposals for an academy.