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Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for School Standards)

Organisations: Department for Education

Responsibilities

The minister’s responsibilities include:

  • school improvement, intervention and inspection (including links with Ofsted)
  • regional improvement for standards and excellence (RISE)
  • special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and high needs
  • alternative provision
  • special schools (including independent special schools (ISS))
  • initial teacher training and incentives
  • teacher retention including the early career framework and teacher training entitlement
  • Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA)
  • school leadership
  • school governance
  • teacher pay and pensions
  • school support staff
  • core school funding
  • pupil premium
  • school productivity
  • qualifications (including links with Ofqual)
  • national curriculum
  • access to sport, arts and music in education, working with other departments
  • admissions and pupil movement
  • relationships and sex education and health education (RSHE) review

Previous holders of this role

  1. Georgia Gould OBE MP

    2025 to 2026

  2. Catherine McKinnell MP

    2024 to 2025