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DfE senior management meetings

Summaries of the Department for Education’s board meetings.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 6 April 2017
• Last updated: 17 March 2025 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Board meeting: 11 November 2024

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Board meeting: 12 September 2024

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Board meeting: 16 May 2024

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Board meeting: 27 March 2024

HTML

Board meeting: 18 January 2024

PDF, 109 KB, 3 pages

Board meeting: 7 December 2023

PDF, 121 KB, 3 pages

Board meeting: 21 September 2023

PDF, 145 KB, 3 pages

Board meeting: 10 July 2023

PDF, 143 KB, 3 pages

Board meeting: 15 June 2023

PDF, 166 KB, 3 pages

Board meeting: 10 May 2023

PDF, 143 KB, 3 pages

Board meeting: 16 March 2023

PDF, 99.9 KB, 2 pages

Board meeting: 8 February 2023

PDF, 105 KB, 3 pages

Details

The Department for Education (DfE) board provides strategic and operational leadership.

The heads of DfE’s groups and the Permanent Secretary meet regularly with the Secretary of State and the ministerial team to discuss DfE’s work. The membership also includes 6 non-executive board members.

Earlier summaries are available on the National Archives:

• from June 2018 to November 2022
• from June 2015 to February 2018
• from April 2014 to January 2015
• from October 2010 to December 2013

Published 6 April 2017

Last updated 17 March 2025 + show all updates

1. 17 March 2025

   Added 'Board meeting: 27 March 2024', 'Board meeting: 16 May 2024', 'Board meeting: 12 September 2024' and 'Board meeting: 11 November 2024'.

2. 29 April 2024

   Added 'Board meeting: 18 January 2024'.

3. 15 February 2024

   Added 'Board meeting: 7 December 2023'.

4. 23 January 2024

   Added 'Board meeting: 10 July 2023' and 'Board meeting: 21 September 2023'.

5. 10 August 2023

   Added 'Board meeting: 10 May 2023' and 'Board meeting 15 June 2023'.

6. 19 June 2023

   Added 'Board meeting: 8 February 2023' and 'Board meeting: 16 March 2023'.

7. 30 March 2023

   Added 'Board meeting: 22 October 2020', 'Board meeting: 16 March 2021', 'Board meeting: 13 May 2021', 'Board meeting: 19 July 2021', 'Board meeting: 2 September 2021', 'Board meeting: 18 November 2021', 'Board meeting: 13 January 2022', 'Board meeting: 10 March 2022', 'Board meeting: 24 May 2022', 'Board meeting: 16 June 2022', 'Board meeting: 14 September 2022', 'Board meeting: 29 November 2022'. A link has been added to the National Archives for meeting minutes from June 2015 to February 2018.

8. 15 March 2021

   Added 'Board meeting: 16 July 2020'.

9. 19 August 2020

   Updated the 'Board meeting: 4 June 2020' file with the minutes for June 2020.

10. 18 August 2020

    Added documents 'Board meeting: 4 June 2020', 'Board meeting: 4 February 2020', 'Board meeting: 16 May 2019', 'Board meeting: 11 February 2019', 'Board meeting: 13 December 2018', 'Board meeting: 11 October 2018' and 'Board meeting: 21 June 2018'.

11. 12 October 2018

    Added the documents 'Board meeting: 7 November 2017' and 'Board meeting: 6 February 2018'.

12. 1 February 2018

    Added DfE Board meeting notes for 2017.

13. 6 April 2017

    First published.