Joint working - Ministerial overhaul results in new-look DCSF

16 June 2009 5 mins read Early Years Education Health Social Care Youth Justice Youth Work

After the uncertainty of the past few weeks, the new ministerial line-up at the Department for Children, Schools and Families is now complete. Lauren Higgs investigates what it means for future policy.

First Beverley Hughes goes. Next, against all the odds, Ed Balls stays put. Then Dawn Primarolo becomes the new children's minister.

As if that wasn't enough drama for one week, Gordon Brown appointed three other new faces to the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), boosting the ministerial crew from five to seven.

Kevin Brennan has returned to the department after eight months in the Cabinet Office as charities minister. Dawn Primarolo, who was previously public health minister, replaces Hughes as the central figure alongside Balls in driving forward the Every Child Matters agenda and the ambitions of The Children's Plan. She has worked with Balls before at the Treasury.

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