Secretary of State for Education - Rt Hon
CBE MP
The Secretary of State is responsible for the work of the
Department for Education, including:
- early years
- children’s social care
- teacher recruitment and retention
- the school curriculum
- school improvement
- academies and free schools
- further education
- apprenticeships and skills
- higher education
Minister of State for Universities -
The minister’s responsibilities include:
- strategy for post-16 education (jointly with Parliamentary
Under Secretary of State for Apprenticeships and Skills)
- universities and higher education reform
- higher education student finance (including the Student Loans
Company)
- widening participation in higher education
- quality of higher education and the Teaching Excellence
Framework
- international education strategy including education exports
international students and technology in education (Edtech)
- Opportunity Areas programme
Minister of State for School Standards - Rt Hon MP
The minister’s responsibilities include:
- recruitment and retention of teachers and school leaders
(including initial teacher training, qualifications and
professional development)
- supporting a high-quality teaching profession and reducing
teacher workload
- Teaching Regulation Agency
- admissions and school transport
- school revenue funding, including the national funding
formula for schools
- curriculum and qualifications (including links with Ofqual)
- Standards and Testing Agency and primary assessment
- school accountability and inspection (including links with
Ofsted)
- support for raising school standards
- school sport
- pupil premium
- relationships, sex, and health education; and personal,
social, health and economic education
- behaviour and attendance and exclusions
- early education curriculum and teaching quality
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and
Families -
The minister’s responsibilities include:
children’s social care including system and funding, workforce,
child protection, children in care, adoption, care leavers and
local authority performance
special educational needs, including high needs funding
early years policy and childcare, including funding, providers,
workforce, children’s centres, home learning environment and
childcare entitlements
alternative provision
disadvantage and social mobility (including links to the Social
Mobility Commission)
school food including free school meals
children and young people’s mental health, online safety and
preventing bullying in schools
policy to protect against serious violence
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for
Apprenticeships and Skills -
The minister’s responsibilities include:
- strategy for post-16 education (jointly with Minister of
State for Universities)
- technical education and skills including T Levels and
qualifications review
- apprenticeships including traineeships
- further education workforce
- further education provider market including quality and
improvement and further education efficiency
- adult education, including the National Retraining Scheme and
basic skills
- Institutes of Technology and National Colleges
- reducing the number of young people who are not in education,
employment or training
- careers education, information and guidance including the
Careers Enterprise Company
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School
System (also Minister for Women) - of The Vale of
Catmose
The minister’s responsibilities include:
- free schools, university technical colleges and studio
schools
- academies and multi-academy trusts, including governance
- faith schools
- independent schools
- home education and supplementary schools
- intervention in underperforming schools, including trust
capacity funds
- school capital investment (including pupil place planning,
new school places and school condition)
- counter extremism and integration in schools
- safeguarding in schools and post-16 settings
- school efficiency
- departmental efficiency and commercial
