The latest Department for Education Staff Portfolios

After the recent reshuffle the following ministers have had their portfolios confirmed and it is interesting to see the extent of individual responsibilities:

Kit Malthouse, Education Secretary, responsible for early years, children’s social care, teacher quality, recruitment and retention. The school curriculum, school improvement, academies and free schools, further education, apprenticeships and skills and higher education.

Kelly Tolhurst, Schools and Childhood Minister, responsible for strategy for schools, including standards and selection, qualifications, curriculum, admissions and school transport, early years and childcare, children’s social care, children in care, children in need, child protection, adoption and care leavers. Disadvantaged and vulnerable children, families, including family hubs and early childhood support, special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), including high needs funding, alternative provision, school food, including free school meals, children and young people’s mental health, online safety and preventing bullying in schools and policy to protect against serious violence.

Jonathan Gullis, School Standards Minister, responsible for school accountability and inspection, standards and testing agency and primary assessment. Teacher professional development, recruitment and retention of teachers and school leaders including initial teacher training and the Teaching Regulation Agency. National Tutoring Programme, Education Investment Areas. School revenue funding, including the national funding formula for schools, school efficiency and commercial policy. Pupil premium, behaviour, attendance and exclusions, school sport and digital strategy and technology in education (EdTech).

Baroness Barran, Academies Minister (minister for the school and college system), responsible for academies and multi-academy trusts, free schools and university technical colleges, faith schools, independent schools. Home education and supplementary schools, intervention in underperforming schools and school improvement. School governance, school capital investment (including pupil place planning), Education Investment Areas, education provision and outcomes for 16 to 19 year olds, college governance and accountability, intervention and financial oversight of further education colleges, careers education, information and guidance including the Careers and Enterprise Company. Reducing the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training. Safeguarding in schools and post-16 settings, counter extremism in schools and post-16 settings, departmental efficiency and commercial policy.

Andrea Jenkyns, Skills Minister, responsible for, strategy for post-16 education

T-levels, qualifications reviews (levels 3 and below), higher technical education (levels 4 and 5), apprenticeships and traineeships, funding for education and training for 16 to 19 year olds, further education workforce and funding. Institutes of Technology, local skills improvement plans and Local Skills Improvement Fund. Adult education, including basic skills, the National Skills Fund and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, higher education quality, student experience and widening participation in higher education, student finance and the Lifelong Loan Entitlement. International education strategy and the Turing Scheme.