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The Government has long been committed to enabling all children and young people to reach their full potential. This requires a strong lead in securing integrated children’s services and educational excellence.
The new Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) means we can really concentrate on achieving these objectives.
The Department will build on the successes in education and children’s services that we have seen over the last decade. It will now focus on the significant challenges that remain – raising standards so that more children and young people reach expected levels, lifting more children out of poverty and re-engaging disaffected young people. The new structure will also allow us to respond to new challenges that will affect children and families: demographic and socio-economic change; developing technology; and increasing global competition.
In addition to its direct responsibilities, the department will lead work across Government to improve outcomes for children, including work on children’s health and child poverty.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families is one of three new government departments set up by the Prime Minister on 28 June 2007; the others are the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (DBERR).
Our website is being updated to reflect these changes.
