Ministerial role
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Early Education)
Organisations:
Department for Education
Current role holder:
Stephen Morgan MP
Responsibilities
The minister’s responsibilities include:
- early years education including for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
- childcare and the home learning environment
- early years workforce
- early communication skills and early intervention
- breakfast clubs
- school food, including free school meals
- independent schools
- maintenance and improvement of the education estate
- environmental sustainability in the education sectors
- school attendance, including register of children who are not in school
- mental health support in schools
- safeguarding, online safety and prevention of serious violence in schools and post-16 settings
- counter extremism in schools and post-16 settings
- behaviour, preventing bullying and exclusions in schools
- use of data, digital technology and artificial intelligence (AI) in education
- use of research, science and evidence within the Department for Education
Current role holder
Stephen Morgan MP
Stephen Morgan was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Early Education) at the Department for Education on 9 July 2024.
He was elected as the Labour MP for Portsmouth South in June 2017.