The savings are part of a £4.5bn package to reduce public debt outlined by Chancellor George Osborne yesterday.
The Treasury said savings within the DfE will come from "tightly managing departmental budgets in-year, so that instead of spending up to budget, departments deliver underspends" and from "savings in the administration of arms-length bodies in the department".
Schools budgets will not be touched as a result of the Conservatives' manifesto promise to protect per-pupil spending, including rising pupil numbers, during the next parliament.
Alison O’Sullivan, president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS), described the £450m in cuts as "very worrying".
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