Department for Education (DfE)

Gillian is currently serving as Secretary of State for Education.

The Minister’s responsibilities include:

early years and childcare
children’s social care
teacher quality, recruitment and retention
the school curriculum
school improvement
academies and free schools
further education
apprenticeships and skills
higher education

Department for Education (DfE)

Gillian is currently serving as Secretary of State for Education. The Minister’s responsibilities include: early years and childcare children’s social care teacher quality, recruitment and retention the school curriculum school improvement academies and free schools further education appr

Guidance: How to manage early career teacher training

Guidance for school leaders and induction tutors on supporting teachers and making changes to training based on the early career framework.

Decision: Revised direction issued to West Sussex County Council (March 2022)

A revised statutory direction issued to West Sussex County Council due to poor performance in children’s social care services.

Decision: FE Commissioner intervention: Ruskin College 2023

FE Commissioner's intervention report summary on Ruskin College, and the Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education’s letter

Guidance: Emergency planning and response for education, childcare, and children’s social care settings

How educational and childcare settings should plan for and deal with emergencies, including significant public health incidents and severe w

Transparency data: DfE: senior officials’ travel, hospitality and meetings, October to December 2022

Data on senior officials’ hospitality and travel expenses and the permanent secretary’s meetings with external organisations.

Data items 2022 to 2023

Guidance about every piece of information you need to send us in autumn 2022, spring and summer 2023.

Decision: Improvement notice issued to Bury Metropolitan Borough Council

An improvement notice issued to Bury Metropolitan Borough Council following an Ofsted inspection in October 2021.

Speech: Education Secretary addresses the Education World Forum

Gillian Keegan celebrates the role of international education and promotes the benefits of embracing Artificial Intelligence in education

Official Statistics: Childcare and early years providers survey: 2022

Statistics on the characteristics of early years providers in England.

Guidance: Teacher training: being safe

Practical training materials for primary and secondary schools to use to train staff to teach about being safe.