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
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Department for Education

Gillian is currently serving as the Secretary of State for Education

The Secretary of State is responsible for the work of the Department for Education, including:

Data items 2023 to 2024

Guidance about every piece of information you need to send us in autumn 2023, spring and summer 2024.

Submitting and checking a return

Information on using our data collection systems to send us your early years census data, checking your return, validating the data and r