Department for Children, Schools and Families
About the Department

Ministerial Team Responsibilities

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

Jim Knight MP

Minister of State for Schools and Learners
Rt Hon Jim Knight MP

  • School standards

  • Ofsted and school improvement

  • National curriculum 5-19, including assessment and liaison with QCA

  • Personalised learning

  • 14-19 curriculum, qualification and delivery programme

  • Work-based learning for 14-19s, financial support for 16-19s

  • School funding

  • School admissions

  • School governance

  • Schools’ capital and BSF

  • Teachers and workforce issues including pensions and GTC

  • PREVENT strategy/counter-terrorism/community cohesion

  • Raising the participation age

  • School trips/Education outside the Classroom

  • Olympics

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

  • Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM)

  • Parental engagement in schools

  • School Leadership including NCSL

  • New Relationship with Schools

  • Local authority funding (with Beverley Hughes)

  • Black Country Challenge

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Sarah McCarthy-Fry MP

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools and Learners
Sarah McCarthy-Fry MP

  • National curriculum 5-19, inc assessment and liaison with QCA

  • Personalised learning

  • 14-19 curriculum & qualification

  • Gifted and talented

  • Work-based learning for 14-19s

  • School admissions

  • Primary schools

  • Special Educational Needs and disabled children

  • Boarding schools

  • Music and dance scheme

  • School transport

  • Pupil health and safety

  • Music

  • Freedom of Information

  • London Challenge

  • Diversity and equality

  • PREVENT strategy/counter-terrorism/community cohesion

  • Race Equality

  • School trips/Education outside the Classroom

  • Olympics

  • Efficiency

  • Sustainability and environment

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RT HON Beverley Hughes MP

Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families
Rt Hon Beverley Hughes MP

  • Youth and Youth Justice

  • Children’s views/Children and Youth Board

  • Child poverty

  • Parenting and families strategy

  • Financial capability (across the board, including in schools)

  • Early learning and development, Curriculum 0-5

  • Extended schools

  • Children’s Centres

  • NEETs

  • Ofsted re children’s services

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

  • Childcare Act 2006 implementation

  • Children’s Trusts

  • Every Child Matters finance

  • ECM inspection and intervention

  • ECM commissioning and market development

  • ECM communications

  • Local government policy

  • Government offices and field forces

  • Teenage pregnancy strategy

  • Domestic violence

  • Young people’s Information Advice and Guidance

  • Social Exclusion

  • Knowledge for improvement

  • Local authority funding (with Jim Knight)

  • Manchester Challenge

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Baroness Delyth Morgan

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

  • Safeguarding and Child Protection
    Includes Vetting and Barring scheme, Independent Safeguarding Authority, Forced Marriage, Domestic Violence

  • Play

  • Children and Young Persons Bill (Lords)

  • Education and Skills Bill (Lords)

  • Children in Care (including Fostering and adoption)

  • ContactPoint

  • CAF (Common Assessment Framework) and Lead Professions

  • UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of Children

  • Parent Know How

  • Parenting Fund

  • Children’s Plan

  • Children’s Workforce

  • Asylum Seeking Children

  • Third Sector

  • Behaviour and attendance, bullying

  • People Referral Units

  • Health issues including school food, Healthy Schools, obesity, drugs, and alcohol

  • Sport and Youth Sport Trust, Playing for Success

  • Young Carers

  • CAFCASS and family law

  • Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM)

  • Salford LA

  • Runaways

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