Prime Minister Theresa May has made a number of important changes to the roles and responsibilities of ministers working on child welfare policy.
These include a wider brief for Minister Of State For Vulnerable Children And Families, Ed Timpson, with added responsibilities in the areas of children’s mental health, the pupil premium and the National Citizen Service.
We still think it’s strange that child welfare matters continue to be lumped in under the Department for Education, and spread out across other ministerial roles. It’s time we had a dedicated department for this work.
We’ve added a break down below of the current roles, responsibilities and who’s in charge of which area:
Department of Health
- Philip Dunne Minister of state for health Hospital care; NHS performance and operations; the workforce; patient safety and maternity care
- Nicola Blackwood Under secretary of state for public health and Innovation Children’s health; school nursing; and mental health in general
- David Mowat Under secretary of state for community health and care Carers; community services; learning disabilities; and all elements of primary care – including dentistry and pharmacy
Department For Education
- Justine Greening Secretary of State for Education; minister for women and equalities Early years; adoption and child protection; teachers’ pay; the school curriculum; school improvement; and the establishment of free schools and academies; crossgovernment equality strategy; transgender equality
- Edward Timpson Minister of state for vulnerable children and families Children’s social care, including child protection, children in care and adoption, care leavers, local authority innovation and intervention, and the Children and Social Work Bill; special educational needs, including education, health and care plans and reforms, attainment and progress, high needs funding; rounded and resilient young people, including mental health and character; school sport and personal, social and health education; National Citizen Service; behaviour and attendance, exclusions and alternative provision; pupil premium and pupil premium plus
- Caroline Dinenage Under secretary of state for women, equalities and early years Childcare and early years, including free childcare expansion; school bullying; sexual orientation and transgender policy; the Equality and Human Rights Commission
- Nick Gibb Minister of state for school standards Teachers; national schools funding formula; curriculum assessment and qualifications; school accountability, including Ofsted; Education for All Bill
- Robert Halfon Minister of state for apprenticeships and skills Careers education and guidance in schools; apprenticeships; funding for post-16 provision; further education and sixth form colleges
Communities and Local Government
- Sajid Javid Secretary of State for Communities Supporting local government, communities and neighbourhoods; and Troubled Families programme
Home Office
- Sarah Newton Under secretary of state for vulnerability, safeguarding and countering extremism Drugs and alcohol; antisocial behaviour; crime prevention; gangs and youth crime; child sexual exploitation and abuse; online child abuse; honour-based violence; missing children; FGM; prostitution; domestic violence
- Robert Goodwill Minister of state for immigration Resettlement policy including the operation of Home Office resettlement programmes for vulnerable children and families
Ministry of Justice
- Elizabeth Truss Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice Overall strategy on criminal justice; penal policy; human rights; and rehabilitation
- Dr Phillip Lee Under secretary of state for victims, youth and family justice Offender health and mental health; substance misuse; Taylor Review of youth justice; youth custodial estate; YJB; youth sentencing; restorative justice; and family law, family justice and mediation, including Cafcass
- Sam Gyimah Under secretary of state for prisons and probation Prison reform; custody; offender employment and education; probation services; parole; and sentencing
Department For Work and Pensions
- Damian Hinds Minister of state for employment Employment strategy; Jobcentre Plus; Youth Contract; family support issues, including childcare, maternity benefits and flexible working
- Penny Mordaunt Minister of state for disabled people, work and health Cross-government disability issues and disability benefits
Culture, Media and Sport
- Rob Wilson Minister for civil society Volunteering and social action; voluntary sector; social investment; mutuals; youth work policy; NCS
What do you think? Would you create new departments, or add other areas that may have been overlooked?
Researching Reform 
Here we go again jobs for the boys and the plebs think oh good things will change, don’t be taken in, its control of the population with kids in care parents lost elderly losing their homes to pay for the care homes untold people sent into detention centres also untold people sectioned under the mental health act, I wonder how many of the people named in the report to take on the new so called jobs are paedophiles and sex abusers, as we know nothing happens o them because they have the jobs for the boys.
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1:-Take babies at birth for risk of future emotional abuse ,have them adopted by strangers,then gag the parents by jailing them if they dare to protest publicly !Fostering and adoption agencies make millions of £s and will not be stopped.
2:-Take older kids at 6.30am screaming for their parents to secret fostering destinations then gag the children if they complain of abuse in care ,confiscate their mobile phones and laptops to cut them off from family and friends and if they are foreign forbid them to speak their own language with visiting parents or to discuss their case or complain about anything otherwise contact is stopped at once.More fodder for the profiteering agencies and also the “special schools”
3:- Take older folk who have savings or property and declare them to have no capacity despite their protests . Tame Court appointed psychologists will always be believed despite any private professional opinions to the contrary.Block the old folk’s bank accounts ,eject any relatives from their houses then sell the properties so that the savings and sale monies can be used to fund grasping lawyers and highly profitable care homes !
No hint that these policies will change while profits are to be made !
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It is so true what you write and all down to control of the population, but the British people will do nothing only moan and maon about their benefits and sod the rest as the Brits are known Lambs to the slaughter
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Please do emailing these people! They must KNOW that victims and survivors are NOT letting it happen to them any more without fighting back!!!
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Back in the early 80s when I first went to Spain it was amazing to witness the cruelty to animals, I asked many Spanish why, all answers were the same, we do not have care homes for abused children, as time has gone by the Brits arrived and many rescue animal shelters opened up, and as can be seen on todays TV Paul O;Gradey program FOR THE LOVE OF DOGS, BLOODY AMAZING AND SO TRUE ANIMALS HAVE ALWAYS HAD A BETTER LIFE IN THE UK THEN KIDS IN CARE, EVEN TO THE FACT OF dogs fostered out, perhaps Paul O’Gradey should learn about the abuse of the kids in care and concentrate on a program to help them.
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More fingers in the pie, but responsibility lies with no one.
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More fingers in the pie, more salaries to pay that justify raising taxes on this and that from taxpayers’ contributions to the exchequer while ensuring no one is ultimately responsible. Oh dear, what goes around stays around. A perpetual tail-chasing merry-go-round.
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