Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Children and Families)
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
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Will Quince
2021 to 2022
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Vicky Ford
2020 to 2021
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The Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP
2019 to 2020
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The Rt Hon Nadhim Zahawi
2018 to 2019
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Edward Timpson CBE KC
2012 to 2015
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Tim Loughton
2010 to 2012