CYP Now - Timpson to step down as MP and ‘focus on advocacy for vulnerable children’

Edward Timpson, the Conservative Party’s longest-serving children’s minister, has announced plans to step down from his role as an MP to focus on family law and “advocacy roles for vulnerable children and families”.

Edward Timpson will not stand in the next election. Picture: Pars Media/Edward Timpson

Timpson, who was children’s minister between 2021 and 2017, chaired the government’s Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel between 2018 and 2020.

He also chaired Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) between 2018 and 2019.

The trained barrister authored a review of school exclusions for the Department for Education in 2019.

Announcing his decision not to stand as MP for Eddisbury in Cheshire, a seat he has held since 2018, at the next general election, he said: “I have been fortunate enough to make a contribution to our national life as the longest-serving minister for children and families, and as Her Late Majesty’s last Solicitor General: improving the lives of care leavers, disadvantaged school pupils, children with special educational needs, and the safeguarding of children and victims of crime nationwide.

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