Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Schools and Childhood)

Organisations: Department for Education

Responsibilities

The minister’s responsibilities include:

  • strategy for schools, including standards and selection
  • qualifications (including links with Ofqual)
  • curriculum including relationships, sex, and health education and personal, social, health and economic education
  • 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
  • policy to protect against serious violence

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Kelly Tolhurst

    2022 to 2022