Department for Children, Schools and Families
The purpose of the Department for Children, Schools and Familiesis to makeEngland the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up. We want to:
- make children and young people happy and healthy
- keep them safe and sound
- give them a top class education
- help them stay on track.
Contact information
- Address: Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3BT
- Website: http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/ [External website]
- Telephone: 0870 000 2288
- Fax: 0192 879 4248
- Email: info@dcsf.gsi.gov.uk
- Generic Email format: firstname.surname@dcsf.gsi.gov.uk
Parliamentary Branch
Correspondence Section
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Ministers
Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families: The Rt Hon Ed Balls MP
Ed Balls
Leads on:
- The Secretary of State holds overall responsibility for the business of the Department and its policies.
Private Office to Rt Hon Ed Balls MP
Minister of State (Schools and Learners): Vernon Coaker MP
Vernon Coaker
Leads on:
- Academies
- Behaviour and attendance, bullying
- Local authority funding (with Dawn Primarolo)
- National Challenge
- National Strategies oversight
- Narrowing the Gap
- New Relationship with Schools
- Ofsted and school improvement
- Parental engagement in schools
- Performance tables & Key Stage tests
- Oversight on Raising the participation age
- Pupil Referral Units
- Schools’ capital and Building Schools for the Future
- School funding
- School governance
- School Leadership including National College for School Leadership
- School Organisation
- School Standards
- Specialist Schools
- Specialist Schools and Academies Trust
- Teachers and workforce issues including pensions and General Teaching Council
- Trust schools
Private Office to Vernon Coaker MP
Minister of State (Children, Young People and Families): The Rt Hon Dawn Primarolo MP
Dawn Primarolo
Leads on:
- Child poverty
- Childcare Act 2006 implementation
- Children’s Centres
- Children’s Trusts
- Children’s views/Children and Youth Board
- Early learning and development, Curriculum 0-5 E
- xtended schools
- Every Child Matters (ECM) finance
- ECM inspection and intervention
- ECM commissioning and market development
- ECM communications Health issues including obesity, drugs and alcohol
- Knowledge for improvement
- Local authority funding (with Vernon Coaker)
- Local government policy
- Government offices and field forces
- Ofsted re children’s services
- Parenting and families strategy (including Parent Know-How, Parenting Fund)
- Social Exclusion
- Teenage pregnancy strategy
- Youth crime and Youth Justice Youth
- Taskforce/Respect
- PREVENT strategy/counter-terrorism/community cohesion
Private Office to Rt Hon Dawn Primarolo MP
Minister of State: Kevin Brennan MP
Kevin Brennan
Leads on:
Also Minister of State at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Private Office to Kevin Brennan MP
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Children, Young People and Families): Baroness Morgan of Drefelin
Baroness Morgan
Leads on:
- Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill in Lords
- Asylum seeking children
- CAFCASS and family law
- Care Matters Programme and implementation of the CYP Act
- Child protection including Vetting and barring scheme
- Children in Care, fostering and adoption
- Children’s workforce
- ContactPoint
- Domestic violence
- Forced Marriage
- Intergrated Children’s Systems and eCAF (Common Assessment Framework) and Lead Professional
- Play
- Safeguarding and implementation of Laming recommendations
- Social Work Taskforce and social work reform
- Third sector
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of Children (UNCRC)
- Young carers
- Young runaways
Private Office to Baroness Morgan of Drefelin
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (14-19 reform and Apprenticeships): Iain Wright MP
Iain Wrigh
Leads on:
- 14-19 Qualification Strategy
- GCSEs/ A-levels
- Diplomas
- Foundation Learning Tier
- Functional skills
- 16-19 funding transfer to LAs
- 16-19 reorganisations including school 6th forms
- Apprenticeships (with Kevin Brennan)
- College based learning for 14-19 year olds
- Education Maintenance Allowance
- Employer engagement
- European Social Fund
- Financial support for 16-19 year olds
- Qualification Curriculum Authority
- Ofqual
- Raising the Participation Age
- School sixth forms
- Work-based learning for 14-19 year olds
- NEETs (Young People not in Education, Employment or Training)
- Olympics
- September Guarantee
- Sport and Youth Sport Trust, Playing for Success
- Work experience
- Young people’s Information Advice and Guidance
- Young Peoples Learning Agency
- Supporting Dawn Primarolo on Youth Justice Board
Private Office to Iain Wright MP
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Schools): Diana Johnson MP
Diana Johnson
Leads on:
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Boarding schools
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Cadet Forces
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Class Sizes
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Diversity and Equality
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Efficiency
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Financial Capability - curriculum
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Freedom of Information
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Gifted and talented
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ICT, Digital curriculum, Teachers’ TV and e-strategy
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Independent schools
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City Challenge:
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Black Country
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Greater Manchester
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London
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Music
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Music and dance scheme
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National curriculum 5-19
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Progression and Personalisation
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Primary schools (inc improvement)
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Pupil health and safety
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Race equality
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School admissions
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School food/Healthy Schools
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School transport
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School trips/education outside the classroom
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Special Educational Needs and disabled children
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Sustainability and environment
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Swine Flu contingency planning/response
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Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM)
Private Office to Diana Johnson MP
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Private Offices
Private Office to The Rt Hon Ed Balls MP
Private Office to Vernon Coaker MP
Private Office to The Rt Hon Dawn Primarolo MP
Private Office to Kevin Brennan MP
Private Office to Baroness Morgan of Drefelin
Private Office to Iain Wright MP
Private Office to Diana Johnson MP
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