Ministerial role
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Children and Families)
Organisations:
Department for Education
Current role holder:
Janet Daby MP
Responsibilities
The minister’s responsibilities include:
- children’s social care
- children’s unique identifier
- children in care and children in need
- looked-after children
- child protection
- adoption
- kinship care and foster care
- care leavers
- children’s social care workforce
- unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
- local authority improvement
- family hubs
- families support and parenting
Current role holder
Janet Daby MP
Janet Daby was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Children and Families) at the Department for Education on 9 July 2024.
She was elected as the Labour MP for Lewisham East in June 2018.