Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Children and Families)

Organisations: Department for Education

Responsibilities

The minister’s responsibilities include:

  • children’s social care
  • families
  • children in care, children in need, child protection, adoption and care leavers
  • early years and childcare
  • disadvantaged and vulnerable children
  • school sport
  • alternative provision
  • behaviour, attendance and exclusions
  • children and young people’s mental health, online safety and preventing bullying in schools
  • policy to protect against serious violence
  • coronavirus (COVID-19) recovery for children’s services and early years

Previous holders of this role

  1. Will Quince

    2021 to 2022

  2. Vicky Ford

    2020 to 2021

  3. The Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP

    2019 to 2020

  4. The Rt Hon Nadhim Zahawi

    2018 to 2019

  5. Edward Timpson CBE KC

    2012 to 2015

  6. Tim Loughton

    2010 to 2012