Prime Minster David Cameron said publishing the business plans for all Whitehall departments represented a "power shift" from central government to communities.
The DfE’s plan sets out a timetable for all the government’s commitments, including increasing support for families with multiple problems and reforming the inspection regime for schools and local authority children’s services.
Cameron said: "Instead of bureaucratic accountability to the government machine, these business plans bring in a new system of democratic accountability – accountability to the people.
"So reform will be driven not by the short-term political calculations of the government, but by the consistent, long-term pressure of what people want and choose in their public services – and that is the horizon shift we need."
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