CYP Now - Department for Education confirms responsibilities of new ministerial team

Liberal Democrat David Laws is to take charge of the pupil premium, raising the participation age, school improvement and government efforts to combat child poverty as the Department for Education confirmed the responsibilities of the new ministerial line-up.

Laws, who replaces Sarah Teather as minister of state at the Department for Education (DfE), will also be responsible for overseeing children's services inspectorate Ofsted. He has been handed a joint ministerial post, working at the Cabinet Office as well as the DfE.

Details of ministerial responsibilities published on the DfE website confirm that Edward Timpson will take over responsibility for children and young people’s services from former junior children’s minister Tim Loughton.

Timpson’s brief will also include adoption, fostering, reform of residential care homes, child protection, special educational needs, family law and justice, school sport, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) and the Office of the Children’s Commissioner.

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