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Cabinet reshuffle ushers in new minister for children

Gordon Brown has brought two new faces into the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) as part of his ministerial reshuffle.

Baroness Delyth Morgan and Sarah McCarthy-Fry have replaced children'sminister Kevin Brennan, who is now the voluntary sector minister in theCabinet Office, and schools minister Lord Andrew Adonis, the architectof the academy schools programme, who has been moved to the Departmentfor Transport.

Baroness Morgan had been a minister at the Dep-artment for Innovation,Universities and Skills. McCarthy-Fry was parliamentary privatesecretary to chief whip Geoff Hoon. As CYP Now went to press, the DCSFhad not confirmed the ministers' areas of responsibility.

Phil Hope, former voluntary sector minister, has moved to the Departmentof Health to replace Ivan Lewis as social care minister.

Ed Miliband, who headed the Cabinet Office, is now the Environment andEnergy Secretary. Immigration minister Liam Byrne has taken charge ofthe Cabinet Office.

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