Gove announces new Department for Education

Michael Gove, the new Education Secretary, has said in a letter to his staff that he wants to refocus the Department on its core purpose of supporting teaching and learning. What was the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) will become the Department for Education.

They will work to give heads and teachers more freedom, and work to allow charities, parents and teachers' groups to open a new generation of small schools with smaller class sizes; introduce a new pupil premium to ensure more funding is targeted at the most deprived pupils; and give more powers to teachers to ensure higher standards of discipline.

Read more in the Children & Young People Now article.