Minister of State (Minister for School Standards)
Catherine McKinnell MP
Biography
Catherine McKinnell was appointed Minister of State (Minister for School Standards) at the Department for Education on 8 July 2024.
She was elected as the Labour MP for Newcastle Upon Tyne North in May 2010.
Minister of State (Minister for School Standards)
The minister’s responsibilities include:
- school improvement, intervention and inspection (including links with Ofsted)
- regional school improvement teams
- initial teacher training and incentives
- teacher retention including the early career framework and teacher training entitlement
- school leadership
- teacher pay and pensions
- school support staff
- core school funding
- qualifications (including links with Ofqual)
- curriculum and assessment, including the curriculum and assessment review and creative education
- special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and high needs
- alternative provision
- school governance
- admissions
- faith schools
- school uniform
- school transport
- access to sport, arts and music in education, working with other departments
- pupil premium