This means Department for Education programmes including Sure Start, Connexions, Positive Activities for Young People and the 14 to 19 reforms will no longer be managed at regional level.
Regional performance management and support for children and young people’s services will also cease and it is widely thought Local Area Agreements could be scrapped.
Arrangements for the closures and for the transfer of any on-going functions will be made at the end of the comprehensive spending review in the autumn, so government office staff will have to wait several months to learn their fate.
Pickles claimed the abolition of the offices would reduce spending on bureaucracy, but protect frontline services.
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