The first year of the Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition government has been dominated by a flurry of reviews and legislation that will trigger changes in the way services are delivered.
The first step taken by Education Secretary Michael Gove was to ditch Labour's Department for Children, Schools and Families and rename it the Department for Education.
Shortly after this Gove kicked off his bid to open up the academies programme to all schools with the introduction of the Academies Bill, which gained Royal Assent last July.
Measures to slim down the school inspection regime, extend the Education Secretary's powers to intervene in underperforming schools and increase teachers' powers to discipline pupils were also laid before parliament in the Education Bill in January. Children's minister Sarah Teather set out the government's stall on provision for children with special educational needs in a green paper this year.
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