Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Children and Families)

Organisations: Department for Education

Responsibilities

The minister’s responsibilities include:

  • child protection (including protection from child sexual exploitation and safeguarding), local authority children’s social care and family law
  • children in care, care leavers and adoption
  • childcare policy including delivery of the 30 hours free childcare offer, inspection and regulation
  • early years policy including inspection, regulation and literacy and numeracy
  • funding for publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities (pupil premium and pupil premium plus)
  • funding and policy on free school meals
  • special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
  • school sports and healthy pupils
  • cadets and military ethos in the education system
  • improving social mobility in the 12 opportunity areas

Previous holders of this role

  1. Robert Goodwill MP

    2017 to 2018

  2. Edward Timpson CBE KC MP

    2015 to 2016

  3. Sarah Teather

    2010 to 2012