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Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Children and Families)

Organisations: Department for Education

Responsibilities

The minister’s responsibilities include:

  • children’s social care
  • children in care and children in need
  • looked-after children
  • child protection
  • adoption
  • kinship care and family justice
  • fostering and regional care cooperatives
  • care leavers
  • children’s social care workforce
  • unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
  • single unique identifier for children and use of children’s social care data
  • child protection, safeguarding and serious incidents
  • local authority intervention and improvement
  • family support including the families first programme
  • tackling antisemitism
  • prevention of serious violence in schools and post-16 settings
  • counter extremism in schools and post-16 settings
  • out-of-school settings
  • school safeguarding and guidance on keeping children safe in education
  • creation of new free schools
  • maintenance and improvement of the education estate
  • environmental sustainability in the education sectors
  • deputising for the Secretary of State for Education in emergencies

Previous holders of this role

  1. Josh MacAlister OBE MP

    2025 to 2026

  2. Janet Daby MP

    2024 to 2025