Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Children and Families)

Janet Daby MP

Biography

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.

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Children and Families)

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

More about this role

Department for Education