Department for Children, Schools and Families
About the Department

Ministerial team responsibilities

The Secretary of State is responsible for all the Department's policies.

Vernon Coaker MP

Minister of State for Schools and Learners
Vernon Coaker MP

  • Academies

  • Behaviour and attendance, bullying

  • Local authority funding (with Dawn Primarolo)

  • National Challenge

  • National Strategies oversight

  • Narrowing the Gap

  • New Relationship with Schools

  • Ofsted and school improvement

  • Parental engagement in schools

  • Performance tables and Key Stage tests

  • Oversight on Raising the Participation Age

  • Pupil referral units

  • Schools’ capital and Building Schools for the Future

  • School funding

  • School governance

  • School leadership including National College for School Leadership

  • School organisation

  • School standards

  • Specialist schools

  • Specialist Schools and Academies Trust

  • Teachers and workforce issues, including pensions and General Teaching Council

  • Trust schools

Dawn Primarolo MP

Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families
Rt Hon Dawn Primarolo MP

  • Child poverty

  • Childcare Act 2006 implementation

  • Children’s centres

  • Children’s Trusts

  • Children’s views/Children and Youth Board

  • Early learning and development, Curriculum 0-5

  • Extended schools

  • Every Child Matters (ECM) finance

  • ECM inspection and intervention

  • ECM commissioning and market development

  • ECM communications

  • Health issues, including obesity, drugs and alcohol

  • Knowledge for improvement

  • Local authority funding (with Vernon Coaker)

  • Local government policy

  • Government offices and field forces

  • Ofsted re: children’s services

  • Parenting and families strategy (including Parent Know-How, Parenting Fund)

  • Social exclusion

  • Teenage pregnancy strategy

  • Youth crime and youth justice

  • Youth Taskforce/Respect

  • Prevent Strategy/counter-terrorism/community cohesion

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Kevin Brenann MP

Minister of State at DBIS, reporting jointly to Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on Apprenticeships
Kevin Brennan MP

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Diana Johnson MP

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools
Diana Johnson MP

  • Boarding schools

  • Cadet forces

  • Class sizes

  • Diversity and equality

  • Efficiency

  • Financial capability – curriculum

  • Freedom of information

  • Gifted and Talented

  • ICT, digital curriculum, Teachers’ TV and e-strategy

  • Independent schools

  • City Challenge

    • Black Country

    • Greater Manchester

    • London

  • Music

  • Music and Dance Scheme

  • National Curriculum 5-19

  • Progression and personalisation

  • Primary schools (inc. improvement)

  • Pupil health and safety

  • Race equality

  • School admissions

  • School food/Healthy Schools

  • School transport

  • School trips/education outside the classroom

  • Special educational needs and disabled children

  • Sustainability and environment

  • Swine flu contingency planning/response

  • Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)

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Baroness Delyth Morgan

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children, Young People and Families
Baroness Delyth Morgan

  • Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill in Lords

  • Asylum-seeking children

  • CAFCASS and family law

  • Care Matters Programme and implementation of the Children and Young People Act

  • Child protection, including vetting and barring scheme

  • Children in care, fostering and adoption

  • Children’s workforce

  • ContactPoint

  • Domestic violence

  • Forced marriage

  • Integrated Children's System and eCAF (Common Assessment Framework) and lead professional

  • Play

  • Safeguarding and implementation of Laming recommendations

  • Social Work Taskforce and social work reform

  • Third sector

  • UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child)

  • Young carers

  • Young runaways

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Iain Wright MP

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for 14-19 Reform and Apprenticeships
Iain Wright MP

  • 14-19 Qualification Strategy

    • GCSEs/ A Levels

    • Diplomas

    • Foundation Learning Tier

    • Functional skills

  • 16-19 funding transfer to LAs

  • 16-19 reorganisations, including school sixth forms

  • Apprenticeships (with Kevin Brennan)

  • College-based learning for 14- to 19-year-olds

  • Education Maintenance Allowance

  • Employer engagement

  • European Social Fund

  • Financial support for 16- to 19-year-olds

  • QCA

  • Ofqual

  • Raising the Participation Age

  • School sixth forms

  • Work-based learning for 14- to 19-year-olds

  • Young people not in education, employment or training (NEET)

  • Olympics

  • September Guarantee

  • Sport and Youth

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