The Department for Education has today confirmed that Kelly Tolhurst is the new schools and childhood minister.
Tolhurst who was appointed a minister within the Department for Education by the Prime Minister Liz Truss earlier this month, takes on the brief of childcare from former junior minister Brendan-Clark Smith who has been moved to the Cabinet Office, and the brief of school standards from Will Quince who is now at the Department for Health and Social Care.
It is the first time in five years that a minister of state has been responsible for childcare policy. In 2017, Robert Goodwill was the senior minister responsible for early years, children in care, child protection, SEND, school funding and free school meals.
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