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Department for Education senior staff data: March 2011
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| Post Unique Reference | Name | Grade | Job Title | Job/Team Function | Parent Department | Organisation | Unit | Contact Phone | Contact E-mail | Reports to Senior Post | Salary Cost of Reports (£) | FTE | Actual Pay Floor (£) | Actual Pay Ceiling (£) | Profession | Notes | Valid? | |
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| DfE-1001 | David Bell | SCS4 | Permanent Secretary | The Permanent Secretary has three overall roles: 1. The Head of the Department. 2. The Accounting Officer. 3. The Chief Policy Non-Political Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State. He is responsible for the overall management of the Department and is accountable to Parliament for the actions the Department takes and the way in which taxpayers’ money is spent. | Department for Education | Department for Education | Accounting Officer and Chief Policy Non-Political Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | xx | 339049 | 1 | 180000 | 184999 | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-1002 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | The Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State heads up the Private Office for the Department. Staff in this division provide support to Ministers and the Permanent Secretary ensuring they receive timely and accurate advice and briefing - liaising with officials in the Department to ensure the Ministerial Team's priorities and requirements are delivered - ensuring Ministers are well-prepared for visits / Parliamentary business / meetings and for handling correspondence/queries from members of Parliament and the public. They also play a key role in working with private offices in other Departments to ensure cross-cutting/cross government business is handled effectively. | Department for Education | Department for Education | Private Office | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-1001 | 1187825 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Operational Delivery | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-1003 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | The Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State heads up the Private Office for the Department. Staff in this division provide support to Ministers and the Permanent Secretary ensuring they receive timely and accurate advice and briefing - liaising with officials in the Department to ensure the Ministerial Team's priorities and requirements are delivered - ensuring Ministers are well-prepared for visits / Parliamentary business / meetings and for handling correspondence/queries from members of Parliament and the public. They also play a key role in working with private offices in other Departments to ensure cross-cutting/cross government business is handled effectively. | Department for Education | Department for Education | Private Office | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-1001 | 0 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Operational Delivery | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2001 | Tom Jeffery | SCS3 | Director General | Director-General for Children Young People and Families - is responsible for: 1. Improving child protection and supporting vulnerable children and young people. 2. Supporting and empowering families so that they can give their children a happy healthy start in life and supporting children who are taken into care. 3. Tackling barriers that might prevent children from fulfilling their educational and wider personal potential. 4. Building local capacity and encouraging the sharing of effective - innovative and cost-effective practice at the local level. 5. Implementing guidance and technology-based tools to improve children’s services management and use of information. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Children Young People and Families Directorate Support Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-1001 | 0 | 1 | 140000 | 144999 | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2002 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Policy advice and development on strategic and Financial issues that go across the range of the Directorate’s responsibilities for children and young people and families supporting discussion and decision making within the senior management team. Control of the finances for CYPFD including Sure Start Grant payments - management information on programme and administrative costs - guidance on accounting - propriety and value for money; strategic financial analysis; engagement in the Department’s financial exercises. Joint management of the Directorate Support Division. Overall management of the HR and other non-financial support functions in the Directorate including the DG’s private office. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Children Young People and Families Directorate Support Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2001 | 765383 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Finance | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5016 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Joint Head of the Preventing Extremism Unit. Responsible for establishing and implementing a due diligence system to ensure that people with extremist views are not able to establish or take over schools; ensure that effective regulation, inspection and intervention for maintained, independendent and out of school learning are reviewed and reinforced; ensure that the DfE agenda is reflected appropriately in cross-Government work on preventing extremism; develop satisfactory arrangements to prevent extremists operating in the school workforce; | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Academies Delivery Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5010 | 0 | 0.58 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2010 | Ann Gross | SCS2 | Director | Leading the Group which supports Ministers in developing and implementing policies relating to the reform of early years and childcare, including Sure Start, early intervention and early education, as well as reforming provision for children with special educational needs and disabilities. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Early Years Extended Schools and Special Needs Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2001 | 324848 | 1 | 80000 | 84999 | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2012 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for reforming provision for children with special educational needs and disabilities, through the implementation of the Green Paper “Support and aspiration: A new approach to special educational needs and disability | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Early Years Extended Schools and Special Needs Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2010 | 1031324 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2013 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for developing and implementing policies on early education for three and four year olds, the new free entitlement for disadvantaged two year olds, and on the childcare market. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Early Years Extended Schools and Special Needs Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2010 | 825543 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2014 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for policy on the reform of Sure Start Children’s Centres, ensuring a focus on supporting families in greatest need through evidence based approaches; leading work on early intervention, including the Early Intervention Grant to local authorities and policy on extended services in schools. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Early Years Extended Schools and Special Needs Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2010 | 1192723 | 0.9 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2020 | Shirley Trundle | SCS2 | Director | Families Group’s responsibilities include: 1. Analysis and advice on family policies 2. Approaches to families facing multiple problems 3. Support for parents’ role in the school system 4. National family support services 5. Relationship support 6. Improving services for children in care and strengthening adoption arrangements and inter-country adoption casework 7. Working with the Ministry of Justice to reform the family justice system and sponsoring the Children and Family Courts Advisory Support Service - Cafcass. 8. Supporting voluntary sector organisations who have an interest in families and children in care and adoption. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Families Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2001 | 0 | 1 | 105000 | 109999 | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2021 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | the policy for children looked after by local authorities (“children in care”) - care leavers and domestic and inter-country adoption policy and inter-country adoption case work. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Families Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2020 | 1239999 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2022 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Deputy Director - Families with Multiple Problems division is responsible for the development and delivery of policies to help families overcome complex health - social - economic and behaviour problems. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Families Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2020 | 558203 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2023 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Deputy Director Responsibility for: 1. A range of early intervention and targeted services for families including Family Information Direct, Parenting Fund and the LA duty to provide information to parents. 2. Parents involvement in their children’s education including the requirements on schools to provide information to parents and Home School Agreements. 3. Arrangements for handling parental complaints and Bookstart, Booktime and Booked Up schemes. 4. Strengthening the use of evidence based practice in parenting and family support including through grants to a range of national family support voluntary organisations and charities. 5. The National Academy for Parenting Research. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Families Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2020 | 1203407 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2024 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Deputy Director. We are responsible for policy on supporting relationships to improve outcomes for children and families and wider society. We lead policy on family law (when families go to court either as a result of parental disputes or where local authorities have concerns about a child’s welfare) and in that capacity sponsor the Children and Families Court Advisory and Support Service a Non-Departmental Public Body which works with children and families in the courts. We also in partnership with the Ministry of Justice support the Family Justice Review panel which is considering reforms to the Family Justice System. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Families Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2020 | 404677 | 0.81 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2031 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Deputy Director for Improving Information Sharing and Management (IISaM) Programme. Responsible for strategy - policy - communications and finance in relation to the closure of the ContactPoint database and testing the feasibility of a possible alternative signposting approach and targeted on genuinely vulnerable children. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Improving Information Sharing and Management Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2010 | 1168330 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2032 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Programme transition and continuous improvement development and implementation with partners to support the wider policy agenda. Management of procurement and contracts and supplier relationships for external consultancy and services across the programme. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Improving Information Sharing and Management Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2001 | 271608 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2040 | Jeanette Pugh | SCS2 | Director | Director of Safeguarding Group which has responsibility for safeguarding and child protection policy nationally. The Group is working with Professor Eileen Munro on her independent review of child protection and is leading work on a range of policies and initiatives to safeguard children including safe recruitment (vetting and barring) - child internet safety and anti-bullying. The Group also leads on policies concerned with vulnerable groups of children - including children and young people at risk of forced marriage - sexual exploitation - trafficking or domestic violence – and has responsibility for policy on children in employment and children who take part in entertainment. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Safeguarding Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2001 | 379000 | 1 | 105000 | 109999 | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2041 | N/D | SCS1A | Deputy Director | Safeguarding Practice Improvement and Learning Division supports Professor Eileen Munro’s independent review of child protection. The review is looking to remove the barriers and unnecessary bureaucracy which prevent improvements in frontline social work practice so that social workers are in a better position to make sound judgments in the best interests of children. The Division also has policy responsibility for: securing better practice and improvement in the child protection system; the statutory framework (Working Together to Safeguard Children): and policy on Local Safeguarding Children Boards and Serious Case Reviews and Child Death Reviews. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Safeguarding Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2040 | 1001750 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2042 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | The Child Safety Unit is responsible for a range of child safeguarding issues including: 1. Internet safety (secretariat for UK Council for Child Internet Safety - leading Government policy on cyberbullying and children’s access to harmful material online). 2. Bullying of children in the community (supporting local areas tackling bullying). 3. Unintentional injuries to children (accidents in the home through the National Home Safety Equipment Scheme). The Unit provides HR - administration - finance and support to Safeguarding Group. The Head of Unit has wider responsibilities including heading the secretariat for the cross-Government review of commercialisation and sexualisation of children. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Safeguarding Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2040 | 724125 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2043 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Child Safeguarding Division leads on a range of policies concerned with vulnerable groups of children including children and young people who are privately fostered and those at risk of forced marriage - sexual exploitation - female genital mutilation - trafficking or domestic violence. It has responsibility for policy on children in employment or children who take part in entertainment - physical punishment of children and the Vetting and Barring Scheme. Child Safeguarding Division also has policy responsibility for safeguarding in education and manages a Government contract to support the expansion of NSPCC’s helpline services and supports Ministerial accountability by briefing on serious childcare incidents. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Safeguarding Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2040 | 987737 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2044 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Safeguarding Practice Improvement and Learning Division supports Professor Eileen Munro’s independent review of child protection. The review is looking to remove the barriers and unnecessary bureaucracy which prevent improvements in frontline social work practice so that social workers are in a better position to make sound judgments in the best interests of children. The Division also has policy responsibility for: securing better practice and improvement in the child protection system; the statutory framework (Working Together to Safeguard Children): and policy on Local Safeguarding Children Boards and Serious Case Reviews and Child Death Reviews. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Safeguarding Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2040 | 0 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2045 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | I am currently a member of the team supporting Professor Munro in her national Review of Child Protection. I have been seconded full time into the deputy director role into this team to bring an operational social work perspective to the review as I have 25 years social work experience at all practice and operational levels in local authority child protection social work. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Safeguarding Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2040 | 0 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2050 | Anne Jackson | SCS2 | Director | Director of Supporting Children and Young People Group. This includes responsibility for policy on promoting children's rights and ensuring better opportunities/support for young people,as well as joint oversight of the DfE/DWP/HMT Child Poverty Unit, which aims to take steps to eradicate child poverty. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Supporting Children and Young People Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2001 | 938056 | 1 | 85000 | 89999 | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2051 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Children and Young People, Health & Wellbeing Support the wellbeing of children and young people by: ensuring that the needs of children and young people are reflected in health services provision, including mental health needs; the reforms to the Office of the Children's Commissioner and the Govt's relationship to the UNCRC; and preventative proposals for young people participating in risky behaviour. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Supporting Children and Young People Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2050 | 947731 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2052 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Young People Division: Policy on services for young people and the joint leadership and national roll-out of the National Citizen Service (with the Office for Civil Society): Its responsibilities also include the delivery of early intervention and improved targeted support to vulnerable young people; MyPlace settings; and increasing VCS participation in delivery of youth services. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Supporting Children and Young People Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2050 | 0 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2054 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Child Poverty Unit; A joint unit of the Department for Education and the Department for Work and Pensions; it’s mission is to make child poverty everybody’s business and work in partnership with stakeholders within and outside government to drive the changes needed to eradicate child poverty by 2020 and ensure that no child has their childhood or life chances blighted by poverty | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Supporting Children and Young People Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2050 | 0 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2055 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Young People Division: Policy on services for young people and the joint leadership and national roll-out of the National Citizen Service (with the Office for Civil Society): Its responsibilities also include the delivery of early intervention and improved targeted support to vulnerable young people; MyPlace settings; and increasing VCS participation in delivery of youth services. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Supporting Children and Young People Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2050 | 873597 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2060 | Olivia McLeod | SCS2 | Director | Director of Supporting Delivery Group. Responsible for ensuring an effective strategic relationship between the department and the children’s services sector including: leading policy on the local authority role in children’s services – local accountability, improvement and intervention; managing the analytical programme for Children Young People and Families policy; coordinating activity to support the development of the Big Society - the role of the Voluntary and Community Sector and promoting commissioning and cost-effective practice; managing the department’s interventions in failing children’s services; managing and leading the CYPFD programme, and working with leaders in the sector to ensure effective two-way engagement in policy and delivery. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Supporting Delivery Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2001 | 0 | 1 | 90000 | 94999 | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2061 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Local Improvement and Interventions Division covers: 1. Development of a sector led approach to improvement support for Local Authorities. 2. Policy on the Department's approach to poorly performing Local Authority Children's Services and those with declining performance. 3. Management of the Department's interventions in poorly performing Local Authorities - including those subject to statutory Directions and Improvement Notices | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Supporting Delivery Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2060 | 701318 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2062 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Analysis and Research Division - Developing the analytical framework and information strategy for children - young people and families and managing research and evaluation of all our policies and programmes | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Supporting Delivery Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2060 | 1128877 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Social Research | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-2063 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Local and Community Policy Division: 1. Facilitation of stakeholder relations with Local Authorities and other partners and Local Authority communications. 2. the role of the local authority in education and children’s services 3. the framework for Children’s Trusts and other local partnership arrangements in the context of localism and decentralisation 4. Developing and implementing the Department's Big Society action plan including oversight of the Department's relationship with the voluntary and community sector and managing the cross-departmental Children and Young People and Families grant programme. 5. Providing financial and internal business support to Supporting Delivery Group. | Department for Education | Department for Education | CYPFD Supporting Delivery Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-2060 | 1119221 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3001 | Jon Coles | SCS3 | Director General | Leads Education Standards Directorate. Overall responsibility for policy on the education workforce / school curriculum / young people's qualifications / National Curriculum testing / accountability school improvement and intervention. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Education Standards Directorate | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-1001 | 0 | 1 | 135000 | 139999 | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3011 | David Russell | SCS2 | Director | Leadership and management of Curriculum and Behaviour Group responsible for: 1. Advising Ministers on the reform of the school curriculum 5-16. 2. Supporting effective subject-based delivery of the school curriculum 5-16. 3. Pupil behaviour, attendance and school discipline. 4. The school role in promoting the health and well-being of pupils. 5. School food. 6. Pupil health and safety. 7. Coordinating the DfE response to emergencies affecting children’s services. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Curriculum and Behaviour Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3001 | 124919 | 1 | 80000 | 84999 | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3013 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for improving behaviour and attendance in English state schools including legislation / policy / correspondence on: 1. Teachers' powers to discipline pupils. 2. Helping schools to manage behaviour better. 3. Measures to prevent and tackle bullying. 4. Exclusions (expulsions and suspensions). 5. The quality of alternative provision for excluded children and others without a school place. 6. Improving attendance at schools. 7. Reducing the number of children missing education altogether. 8. Penalty notices, parenting contracts or orders and other 'Parental responsibility measures'. 9. The use of fingerprinting and biometric information in school. 10. Health and Safety in Schools | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Curriculum and Behaviour Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3011 | 844651 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3014 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | The Division is responsible for advising Ministers on the reform of the curriculum for 5-16 year olds. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Curriculum and Behaviour Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3011 | 642217 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3015 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for a) strategic support to schools in key curriculum subjects in order to improve selected outcomes e.g. mathematics, science, and music; and b) giving broader support for curriculum provision, as needed, in order to ensure schools provide a broad range of subjects, ethos and activities - including a review of Personal, Social, Health and Economics (PSHE) education. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Curriculum and Behaviour Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3011 | 1369335 | 0.89 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3020 | Dominic Herrington | SCS2 | Director | Leadership and Management of the Education Strategy and Improvement Group through: 1. Policy and improvement activity for underperforming schools. 2. Programme for reducing bureaucracy in schools. 3. Directorate Programme Management and central support activities. 4. The Education Bill and Strategy. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Education Strategy and Improvement Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3001 | 335695 | 1 | 80000 | 84999 | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3021 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | 1. Policy on Schol Improvement 2. Policy development and delivery of the annual primary and secondary school performance tables. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD School Standards Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3020 | 814596 | 0.5 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3022 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for: 1. Ensuring Education Standards Directorate manages its people in the most efficient and effective way by making sure we: have the right number of skilled people to deliver our objectives; analyse key data; and take action to ensure we have highly motivated effective staff. 2. Supporting two Director Generals for Education Standards and Infrastructure and Funding to plan and organise their Directorates using PPM to monitor and report progress as well as manage risks and ensure stakeholder input in policy making. 3. Leading the work on reducing bureaucracy in schools including the stakeholder reference group. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Education Strategy and Improvement Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3020 | 906553 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3023 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Education Bill Manager: To advise and support Ministers on the preparation of an education bill that was announced in the Queen's Speech and the Bill's subsequent introduction and passage through Parliament. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Education Strategy and Improvement Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3020 | 0 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3024 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | The Division provides strategic direction for the Department’s education policies that impact on schools and colleges so that policies are developed within a coherent framework and prioritised effectively. The Division acts as a centre of expertise on primary issues and provides support and challenge as policies are developed / implemented / evaluated to ensure that they reflect the needs and characteristics of the primary sector. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Education Strategy and Improvement Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3020 | 305412 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3025 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Deputy Director in the Education Strategy and Improvement Group: 1. Working with Local Authorities and other partners in selected regions to develop a shared and coherent strategy for school improvement and underperformance. 2. Tackling underperformance by developing a shared professional understanding for improvement in selected regions. 3. Ensuring coherence of school improvement policies and interventions (e.g Free Schools/Academies) across selected regions. 4. Ensuring that resources for school improvement in selected regions achieve maximum impact for money. 5. Ensuring that knowledge of what works in selected regions informs the development of school improvement and underperformance policy. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Education Strategy and Improvement Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3020 | 466221 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3026 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Deputy Director in the Education Strategy and Improvement Group: 1. Working with Local Authorities and other partners in selected regions to develop a shared and coherent strategy for school improvement and underperformance. 2. Tackling underperformance by developing a shared professional understanding for improvement in selected regions. 3. Ensuring coherence of school improvement policies and interventions (e.g Free Schools/Academies) across selected regions. 4. Ensuring that resources for school improvement in selected regions achieve maximum impact for money. 5. Ensuring that knowledge of what works in selected regions informs the development of school improvement and underperformance policy. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Education Strategy and Improvement Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3020 | 1061088 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3027 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Deputy Director in Education Strategy and Improvement Group: 1. Working with Local Authorities and other partners in selected regions to develop a shared and coherent strategy for school improvement and underperformance. 2. Tackling underperformance by developing a shared professional understanding for improvement in selected regions. 3. Ensuring coherence of school improvement policies and interventions (e.g Free Schools/Academies) across selected regions. 4. Ensuring that resources for school improvement in selected regions achieve maximum impact for money. 5. Ensuring that knowledge of what works in selected regions informs development of school improvement and underperformance policy. 6. Financial Strategy and Management for Directorate. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Education Strategy and Improvement Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3020 | 551281 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3030 | Susan Hackman | SCS2 | Director | Assessment, performance tables, inspection, standards in English and mathematics; technology strategy; international education strategy; sharing research and best practice; underperforming pupil groups and improving schools above the floor. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD School Standards Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3001 | 50191 | 1 | 120000 | 124999 | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3031 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | School Improvement policy for schools above the floor standards; performance tables and improving accountability through greater transparency of data on schools' | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD School Standards Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3030 | 4447280 | 0.7 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3032 | N/D | SCS1A | Deputy Director | The Division is responsible for policies aimed at improving the rate at which pupils make progress and narrowing achievement gaps. These include policy responsibility for one-to-one tuition / setting and grouping / assessment for learning / new approaches to national curriculum testing/under-performing pupil groups, including disadvantaged pupils. Tuition work involves managing implementation of a funding programme of around £260m in 2010-1. Policy on disadvantaged pupils includes policy issues related to the pupil premium. The Division also leads on establishing the new Standards and Testing Agency. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD School Standards Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3030 | 786587 | 0.83 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3033 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for: 1. Policy in respect of the National Curriculum Key Stage 2 tests and other statutory assessment arrangements. 2. Working closely with QCDA on delivery of the annual Key Stage 2 tests. 3. Development of the new Year 1 phonics screening check | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD School Standards Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3030 | 430135 | 0.83 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3034 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Overseeing policies and strategies to raise educational standards in English and maths, and the Department’s business engagement with Ofsted. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD School Standards Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3030 | 0 | 0.73 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Job share | 1 |
| DfE-3034 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Overseeing policies and strategies to raise educational standards in English and maths, and the Department’s business engagement with Ofsted. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD School Standards Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3030 | 740466 | 0.5 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Job share | 1 |
| DfE-3036 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Apprenticeship Policy Unit (Joint with BIS). There are 14 people in the Unit, all work jointly for both depts but only two are formally DfE staff purposes of pay and terms. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD School Standards Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3030 | 0 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3040 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Schools Analysis & Research Division (SARD) provides high-quality and relevant statistics / analysis / research / evaluation that contribute to the development and implementation of well-founded and cost-effective policies and the dissemination of accurate - authoritative information to the policy areas of the Directorate. All of the division’s staff members are specialists drawn from the government's Statistics / Economics / Social Research / Operational Research professions. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Analysis and Research Division | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3001 | 2095455 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Statisticians | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3041 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Not available | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD School Standards Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3030 | 590899 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3050 | Marcus Bell | SCS2 | Director | Responsible for policy advice and delivery of Ministerial priorities on teachers and the school and children's workforce, including training, standards, regulation, misconduct, pay, pensions and industrial relations | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Workforce Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3001 | 294550 | 1 | 80000 | 84999 | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3051 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | t and deployment of the school workforce. 3. supporting the development of relevant and effective workforce skills and qualifications. 4. raising performance by developing arrangements to address poor classroom practice in schools. 5.managing the Department’s relationship with the Children’s Workforce Development Council | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Workforce Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3050 | 1117350 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3052 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Deputy Director with responsibility for all matters relating to school workforce Terms and Conditions of employment. The main focus of the Division's work is on: 1. Pay / pensions / conditions of employment together with their associated reform programmes. 2.Giving effect to the Coalition Government's priorities for giving schools greater freedoms and flexibilities over pay and conditions. 3. Managing the contract for the administration of the Teachers' Pension Scheme and other related contracts. 5. Representing the DfE interests on cross-Government workforce initiatives | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Workforce Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3050 | 1027440 | 0.5 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3053 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | The division leads on policy and delivery –leading the Department’s relationship with the Training and Development Agency for Schools and the National College – in respect of initial teacher training / development of Early Years Professionals / supply of head-teachers / development of new roles such as National Leaders of Education and training for Directors of Children's Services. It has the lead on Teach First / Teaching Leaders / Future Leaders. Also leads on industrial relations issues affecting schools - developing successful on-going engagement with employers / their representative bodies / professional associations / Trades' Unions across the workforce. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Workforce Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3050 | 1104908 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3054 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Head of the Joint Social Work Unit which is implementing a programme of reform for the social work profession across children and adults services based on the recommendations of the Social Work Task Force. The reform programme is being developed through the Social Work Reform Board reports to Ministers in BIS / DH / DFE. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Workforce Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3050 | 360635 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3055 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Mat Leave | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Workforce Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3050 | 0 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3060 | Stephen Meek | SCS2 | Director | Advises on qualifications for 14-19 year olds including A Levels / GCSEs / iGCSEs / Apprenticeships. Oversight of Ofqual / QCDA / the operation of the exam system. Raising participation in education and training among 16-18 year olds including reducing the number of NEETs / information / advice and guidance and financial support. Employer engagement in education. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Qualifications Stratefy and Reform Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3001 | 968160 | 1 | 105000 | 109999 | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3061 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Head of Qualifications Policy Division with responsibility for: 1. Overall DfE qualifications strategy. 2. Section 96 approval of qualifications for use in maintained schools and colleges. 3. General and vocational qualifications for students aged 14-19 including A Levels / GCSEs / Diplomas. 4. The English Baccalaureate. 5. The Wolf Review of Vocational Education. 6. The Foundation Learning tier. 7. Young Apprenticeships. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Qualifications Stratefy and Reform Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3060 | 766497 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3062 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for policy relating to quality assurance and improvement of post-16 provision and support to young people to enable them to access 16-19 education and training. This includes financial support to young people (for example, the 16-19 Bursary Fund and the Care to Learn scheme for young parents), provision for young people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities, and young people's access to careers guidance, to help them to make appropriate choices for learning and work. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Qualifications Stratefy and Reform Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3060 | 969532 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3063 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Head of Qualifications Delivery Division, with responsibility for 1. Diploma Reform and transition 2. Diploma Awarding 3. Local funding and qualification implementation 4. Wolf Review recommendations on low attainers 5. DfE interests in UK Commission for Education and Skills. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Qualifications Stratefy and Reform Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3060 | 537140 | 0.7 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3065 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for implementation of the Raising the Participation Age legislation that increased the education/training leaving age to 18 by 2015. Policy on reducing the proportion of 16-18 year olds who are not in education / employment / training. The September Guarantee that secures a suitable offer of a place in learning for all 16/17 year olds. Policy on narrowing the gap in attainment of Level 2 / Level 3 qualifications at age 19 between young people who were eligible for Free School Meals and their peers. The Flexible Resource Unit - a team who provide support to other policy areas. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Qualifications Stratefy and Reform Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3060 | 0 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-3066 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for the programme leading up to QCDA’s closure in 2012. We are also responsible for ongoing sponsor work relating to QCDA’s remit / its budget and management of the interface between Departmental policy teams and QCDA until closure. In addition we are responsible for managing the Department’s relationship with Ofqual / policy on and delivery of functional skills qualifications / handling of all issues relating to the delivery of examinations in schools. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Qualifications Stratefy and Reform Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3060 | 646612 | 0.67 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Job share | 1 |
| DfE-3066 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for the programme leading up to QCDA’s closure in 2012. We are also responsible for ongoing sponsor work relating to QCDA’s remit / its budget and management of the interface between Departmental policy teams and QCDA until closure. In addition we are responsible for managing the Department’s relationship with Ofqual / policy on and delivery of functional skills qualifications / handling of all issues relating to the delivery of examinations in schools. | Department for Education | Department for Education | ESD Qualifications Stratefy and Reform Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-3060 | 0 | 0.65 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Job share | 1 |
| DfE-4001 | Sue Higgins | SCS3 | Director General | Director General Finance and Corporate Services Directorate is a qualified Accountant. Responsibilities encompass Finance, People and Change, Information Technology and Knowledge Management, Property Asset Management, Strategy and Performance, Strategic Analysis, Research and Policy Impact, Commercial, Communications, ALB Reform and Departmental Security. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Finance and Corporate Services Directorate | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-1001 | 1039578 | 1 | 135000 | 139999 | Not set | Operational Delivery | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4003 | James Frayne | SCS2 | Director | Oversees the Department’s communications strategy and manages its communications team to ensure the Department’s internal and external messages are delivered effectively. Ensures the Department’s communications activity accurately reflects the priorities of the Secretary of State and other Ministers. Provides the Secretary of State and Ministers with ongoing communications advice and support. Oversees major media announcements with the senior team. Develops and oversees the Department's engagement with important external stakeholders. Also responsible for the Department's Public Communications Unit (PCU) which deals with correspondence, the DfE telephone line and consultations. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Communications Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4001 | 2152660 | 1 | 100000 | 104999 | Not set | Communications | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4010 | David Hawker | SCS2 | Director | The DG role provides high level oversight of the DfE/ALB Reform programme including acting as Senior Reporting Officer and representing DFE on the cross Government Public Bodies Steering Board. In scope are 17 ALBs forming part of the DfE group. The role includes maintaining relationships at strategic level with ALB Chief Executives/Chairs: external stakeholders (eg headteacher unions: LGA: Local Authority Directors and Chief Executives) and other Government Departments over the reform programme. As a consequence of the reform programme it also includes formulating ideas and contributing thinking towards a future operating model for DfE and the education sector in England. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Arms Length Bodies Reform Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4001 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4012 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Arm's Length Body Reform Division has two principal functions: first it oversees the DfE strategy on Arm's Length Bodies (ALBs) and ensures that the strategy is consistent with the Government-wide reform programme led by Cabinet Office. The Division works with others in the Department and the ALBs to make sure that the reforms to and closures of ALBs are delivered successfully and achieve their objectives of improving accountability and efficiency. Second the Division provides services such as grant payments on behalf of the DfE teams responsible for managing the relationships with many DfE ALBs. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Arms Length Bodies Reform Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4010 | 524113 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4020 | Tim Wright | SCS2 | Director | Director General Finance and Corporate Services Directorate is a qualified Accountant. Responsibilities encompass Finance, People and Change, Information Technology and Knowledge Management, Property Asset Management, Strategy and Performance, Strategic Analysis, Research and Policy Impact, Commercial, Communications, ALB Reform and Departmental Security. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Chief Information Officer and Property Asset Management Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4001 | 2502769 | 1 | 135000 | 139999 | Not set | Information Technology | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4021 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | The Service Management Unit (SMU) manages the delivery and support of a wide range of internal and externally-provided IT Services using processes and procedures based on ITIL v 3 standards. Our customers include: internal departmental staff: other Departments: Arms Length Bodies: Local Authorities and other education delivery partners. Our services range from departmental email and video-conferencing through to key public facing services such as the Online Free School Meals Eligibility Checking Service (OFSM - ECS). | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Chief Information Officer and Property Asset Management Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4020 | 2837171 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Information Technology | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4022 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Head of Strategy and Architecture Unit. Responsible for: Development and implementation of a sector wide ICT strategy for education skills and children's services and the underpinning enterprise architecture and standards: Design assurance of Departmental/sector business systems and Chair of the Architectural Review Board (ARB). The Secretariat function is provided by Standards and Archtiecture unit. Deputy Chair of the CIO Council for the Education Sector. DfE senior sponsor for the Information Standards Board (ISB) for education skills and children's services, responsible for the defining work programme for data and information standards activities for the Education, Skills and children's Services sector. The Secretariat is provided by the Strategy and Architecture Unit which also directs the ISB's Technical Support Service. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Chief Information Officer and Property Asset Management Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4020 | 721494 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Information Technology | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4023 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Head of Business Solutions Unit. Responsible for delivering ICT Programmes and Projects in CIO Group which include delivery of new applications and systems and ICT enabled business change. The role is accountable for the Information Workplace services and as Chief Knowledge Officer is the Head of Profession for Knowledge and Information Management. The role has a cross government responsibility on the G-Cloud Programme. As Foundation Delivery Partner for Collaboration has responsibility for delivering the first collaboration tools in the G-Cloud and developing the collaboration market. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Chief Information Officer and Property Asset Management Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4020 | 1193399 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Information Technology | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4031 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Deputy Director Business Insight and Central Policy Division. Responsible for providing the Department with high quality commercial and financial management information, market intelligence and business insight. Leading the transparency agenda; benchmarking; benefits realisation and business management. Providing the central Departmental focus for ERG/CO liaison including spending controls, facilitating the sharing of commercial resources across the 12 small departments and representing them on the Procurement Executive Board. Ensuring that the Department’s commercial and financial policies and practice are consistent with best practice - providing capability and skills programmes for the Departmental family and the schools sector, including supporting the development of the new schools financial management framework. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Financial and Commercial Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4090 | 1874490 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Procurement | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4032 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Deputy Director Commercial Division. Responsible for ensuring that the Department for Education family’s commercial and procurement activity supports the Department’s priorities and delivers outstanding value for money. To proactively develop commercial solutions for the wider education sector to deliver | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Financial and Commercial Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4090 | 2896561 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Procurement | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4041 | N/D | SCS1A | Deputy Director - Head of News | Head of News - responsible for communications with the Media and providing advice and guidance to Minsiters and officials on media handling. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Communications Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4001 | 771039 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Communications | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4042 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Head of Corporate and Internal Communications - responsible for the Department's corporate communications, including digital, speechwriting, publishing and internal communication. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Communications Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4001 | 1319491 | 0.9 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Communications | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4043 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Head of Communication Strategy and Insight - responsible for providing advice and guidance to Ministers and the Department on strategic communications and planning, including audience insight. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Communications Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4001 | 780244 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4044 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Head of Campaigns and Partnerships - Leading senior management team through strategic and practical thinking to turn the high level role for communications in to clear and executable briefs. Oversee and quality assures creative approaches, campaign delivery and evaluation, reporting to Ministers and policy teams directly or through virtual teams. Responsible for ensuring effective relationship management with ministers, senior policy officials, special advisors and key senior stakeholders, as well as quality assurance of the team's work and accountability for budget, risk management, VFM and management information. Lead the Department’s ERG process for managing the Cabinet Office’s controls on paid-for communications. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Communications Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4001 | 755749 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Communications | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4050 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Deputy Director Corporate Finance Division. Responsible for managing the Department’s overall financial position through the production of timely and accurate financial reports, ensuring that the Department for Education remains one of the top performing departments for its financial management. Strengthen financial reporting, forecasting and management in the Department’s family including supporting Academies and Free Schools to carry out due diligence checks on potential providers. To lay unqualified Departmental Resource Accounts before Recess and complete the Clear Line of Sight implementation across the Departmental family. Deliver the requirements for embedding the new Executive Agencies into the Financial Framework; facilitate Grant payments to support the Department’s objectives and develop a more strategic business partnering role. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Financial and Commercial Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4090 | 943794 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Finance | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4051 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Deputy Director Efficiency and Reform Division. Responsible for leading Finance and Commercial Group’s support for the ALB reform programme including the work to transform the provision of Finance and Commercial services in the Department for Education family ensuring that the required administrative savings are delivered. To develop an operating model for Finance and Commercial Activity and work with ALB Finance and Commercial Directors to ensure that NDPBs have effective Finance and Commercial functions until closure (and beyond) and new Executive Agency set up is achieved. To work with the People and Change Group to manage the transition of people from the ALBs into the Department and to support the Head of Finance professionalism. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Financial and Commercial Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4090 | 294411 | 0.76 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Finance | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4060 | Dawn Jarvis | SCS2 | Director | I lead the People and Change Group which is responsible for the delivery of strategic Human Resource and Change Management functions for the Department for Education. This is achieved through the delivery of direct services and the application of organisational design and development techniques to ensure the Department has the capacity and the capability to deliver the priorities of Government. In addition I act as the Programme Director for the Efficiency and Reform Programme which is tasked with delivering administration budget efficiency savings through changes to the way the Department and its arms length bodies operate. I also am the Head of Site for our Sheffield office. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD People and Change Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4001 | 464779 | 1 | 95000 | 99999 | Not set | Human Resources | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4061 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for HR aspects of reform of Department's ALBs to ensure smooth transfer of staff and setting up of Executive Agencies through: engagement with ALB HR staff to agree effective transfer arrangements to new executive Agencies via TUPE/COSOP; constructive engagement with trade unions on people aspects of ALB reform; project lead for HR stands of Agency start up plans to ensure HR issues are dealt with in a timely and efficient manner to ensure Department is complying with employment legislation; effective harmonisation of terms and conditions for restructured Department. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD People and Change Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4060 | 281078 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Human Resources | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4062 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Senior HR professional responsible for: developing and delivering the DfE workforce plans and resourcing strategy; redeployment and staff reductions (strategy - policy - processes); leading the specialist HR Business Partnering in providing advice and support to the Board and their senior management teams; HR casework (policy - process - resolution); providing HR expertise and support to projects relating to the closure of Government Office Network and the review of the DfE Arms Length Bodies; and managing and monitoring the impact of the Government’s efficiency controls. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD People and Change Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4060 | 1112999 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Human Resources | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4064 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Deputy Director Performance Unit - role is to drive performance across the Department, with responsibility for the business plan and corporate performance, monitoring progress against key performance indicators and reporting to the Departmental Board. Responsible for the set up and secretariat for the Board itself and for improving departmental capability through better corporate governance. Improve the Department’s management of risk and ensures a continued focus on assurance activities whilst consuming less resource. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Strategy and Performance Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4080 | 960863 | 0.83 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Programme and Project Management (PPM) | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4070 | Carole Willis | SCS2 | Director | Director of Research and Analysis. Departmental Chief Scientific Advisor. Directly oversees 4 Divisions responsible for cross-cutting analysis and statisitcal collections, as well as managing Departmental interest in migration policy and increasing the use of good policy making skills across the Department. This includes analysis of “value for money”, international comparisons, delivering data transparency and reduced data burdens and specialist support on equalities, reducing regulation and sustainability. Carole also leads the wider analytical community across DfE to ensure that sound analysis/evidence informs policy development and delivery. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Strategic Analysis Research and Policy Impact Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4001 | 399991 | 1 | 85000 | 89999 | Not set | Operational Delivery | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4072 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | The Deputy Director of SA is the Department's Chief Economist leading a division whose role is to ensure that appropriate economic analysis and international statistical evidence influences all key policy and spending decisions affecting DfE. As the Department's Chief Economist she ensures that the Department recruits and develops high-quality economists for all its policy directorates. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Strategic Analysis Research and Policy Impact Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4070 | 618221 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Economics | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4073 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Deputy Director for Policy Impact - responsible for overseeing the policy making process in DfE and delivering related guidance and training so that staff can focus their skills and time on developing and delivering effective policies. The Division also provides specialist advice on equality, sustainability, regulatory reform, devolution and migration and works with teams to help them and the Department as a whole to meet legal requirements and Government commitments in these areas. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Strategic Analysis Research and Policy Impact Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4070 | 671525 | 0.86 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4074 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Delivering a large range of key data service outputs to schedule that are relevant and fit for purpose through high level delivery and risk management. Provide a flexible customer focussed responsive service delivering all products/services through transparent value for money agreements. Offering an exciting and creative workplace with a coherent structure for development of staff. Providing a culture which embraces improvement/innovation and bring about improvements in security in the working environment to protect data holdings. As Head of Profession for Statistics deals with statistical issues as they arise and ensure compliance with Code of Practice for Official Statistics. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Strategic Analysis Research and Policy Impact Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4070 | 4348039 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Statisticians | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4080 | Lucy Smith | SCS2 | Director | Director Strategy and Performance Group - leads the development of the Department’s overall strategy for transforming the education system and improving outcomes for children and young people. The Director is also responsible for establishing the Department’s priorities and driving its performance. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Strategy and Performance Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4001 | 132819 | 1 | 80000 | 84999 | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4081 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Deputy Director Strategy Unit - responsible for developing the Department’s strategy, looking afresh at critical issues, problem solving, and developing strategy and policy in areas where new challenges emerge or are anticipated. Improve the Department’s strategic capability, by preparing for strategic challenges, through horizon-scanning to identify issues and trends, and by sharing strategy project skills and developing and promoting strategic tools and approaches. Responsible for the Spending Review, and leads on Budget and PBR processes, meeting the milestones set by Ministers and HMT in order to achieve the right settlement for the Department in constrained financial circumstances, to spend money effectively at the frontline, and to advise on strategic resource/financial issues. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Strategy and Performance Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4080 | 664646 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4082 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Deputy Director Performance Unit | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Strategy and Performance Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4080 | 0 | 0.83 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4083 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | The Department’s Policy Advisers - work closely with Ministers on the development of the strategy for transforming the education system and improving outcomes for children and young people. | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Strategy and Performance Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4080 | 0 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-4090 | Simon Parkes | SCS2 | Director | Director Finance and Commercial Group. Responsible for leading the Department’s Finance and Commercial functions to enable the Department to achieve its key priorities – delivering new Academies, Free Schools, reform of Arms Length Bodies; the delivery of significant reductions in administrative expenditure and supporting more effective procurement in schools. Providing support to the Accounting Officer and ensuring the Department secures value for money through developing the Department’s management information; ensuring that the right information is available at the right time to support the Department’s strategic decision making | Department for Education | Department for Education | FCSD Financial and Commercial Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-4001 | 0 | 1 | 135000 | 139999 | Not set | Finance | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5001 | Lesley Longstone | SCS3 | Director General | Infrastructure and Funding Directorate (IFD) is responsible for school and college funding up to age 18 (25 for young people with learning difficulties) including funding provided via local authorities and development of the proposed pupil premium. It is also responsible for capital policy and spend. The directorate leads on implementation of the Government's structural reform programme including Free Schools and expansion of the Academies programme. Admissions arrangements / school organisation matters / faith schools also fall to IFD as do policy oversight and funding of the Young People's Learning Agency (YPLA) and Partnerships for Schools (PfS). | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Infrastructure and Funding Directorate | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-1001 | 196876 | 1 | 135000 | 139999 | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5010 | Andrew McCully | SCS2 | Director | Academies Delivery Group is responsible for the identification of new Academy projects and managing the transition of those schools to Academy status. That involves: 1. Relationships with Sponsors and brokering new projects with underperforming schools. 2. Developing those projects until they are ready for opening. 3. The identification and conversion of high performing schools to academy status. 4. the mechanism for checking the suitability of new providers in the school system. This role will also provide the point of expertise for contributing to cross-Whitehall work on preventing extremism. | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Academies Delivery Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5001 | 398310 | 1 | 105000 | 109999 | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5011 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | The Academies Brokering DD post is responsible for: 1. Identifying and agreeing new Academies in place of underperforming schools. 2. Identifying new Academy sponsors and working with existing sponsors to identify new Academy projects. 3. Policy and systems for approving organisations to sponsor Academies and matching sponsors to projects. | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Academies Delivery Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5010 | 393633 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5012 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Head of Sponsored Academies Projects Division: 1. Responsible for managing the projects to establish new sponsored academies. 2.Working with sponsors and schools to overcome obstacles and take projects through to successful opening. 3. Delivering a smooth handover to the Young People's Learning Agency that is responsible for funding and working with all open academies | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Academies Delivery Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5010 | 2443271 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5014 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Joint Head of the Preventing Extremism Unit. Responsible for establishing and implementing a due diligence system to ensure that people with extremist views are not able to establish or take over schools; ensure that effective regulation, inspection and intervention for maintained, independendent and out of school learning are reviewed and reinforced; ensure that the DfE agenda is reflected appropriately in cross-Government work on preventing extremism; develop satisfactory arrangements to prevent extremists operating in the school workforce; | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Academies Delivery Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5010 | 0 | 0.6 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5015 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for the delivery of Academy conversions. Project Leads work in regional-facing teams to support individual and groups of schools through the conversion process, co-ordinating advice on a range of legal and other issues. | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Academies Delivery Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5010 | 2270996 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5020 | Peter Houten | SCS2 | Director | Academies Policy and School Organisation: 1. Academy policy - funding agreements / legal position / legislation / Charity Commission etc. 2. Policy on enforced conversion / interventions / Interim Executive Boards. 3. | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Academies Policy and School Organisation Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5001 | 1627236 | 1 | 105000 | 109999 | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5021 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for developing the funding and finance models by which DfE funds academies and free schools and monitoring DfE's spend. Responsible for DfE's Framework Contract which academies and free schools use to call off specialist project management and educational professional advice and for developing a data strategy to support the expansion of the academies programme. DfE policy lead on educational performance in open academies. | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Academies Policy and School Organisation Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5020 | 922413 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5023 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Independent Education and school governance division covers: 1. Regulation of independent schools. 2. Independent school policy. 3. Home education. 4. Boarding schools. 5. School governance. | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Academies Policy and School Organisation Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5020 | 817063 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5024 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for the development and implementation of Academies Policy and an Academies communication strategy. | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Academies Policy and School Organisation Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5020 | 0 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5025 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Provision of education advice to sponsored Academies, schools judged satisfactory by OfSTED converting to Academy status. This includes providing an Education Adviser for each project who produces an education risk assessment, works closely with project leads & sponsors from Ministerial approval of the Statement of Intent through to opening. The Unit provides education advice to operational boards including Academy converters as more schools seek Academy status. Works closely with YPLA, who have responsibility for open academies, and Supporting School Improvement Division. Contributes to development of policy in relation to Academies, Free Schools, University Technology Colleges and Studio Schools. | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Academies Policy and School Organisation Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5020 | 0 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5026 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for the legislative framework for the opening closing and status of schools; faith schools policy lead for the Department; school land policy; the school admissions system, including legislation and parental preference; school transport policy; and developing new policy options for creating a more autonomous and high quality schools system. | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Academies Policy and School Organisation Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5020 | 1371111 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5030 | Mela Watts | SCS2 | Director | Overall responsibility for the development of all Free School policy and for taking individual proposals through to implementation. | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Free Schools Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5001 | 317286 | 1 | 80000 | 84999 | Not set | Programme and Project Management (PPM) | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5031 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for distinct elements of Free School policy and for taking forward individual proposals in the North East and Yorkshire and Humber and East of England regions | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Free Schools Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5030 | 1877968 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5032 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for distinct elements of Free School policy and for taking forward individual proposals in the South West and South East regions | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Free Schools Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5030 | 777744 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5033 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for distinct elements of Free School policy and for taking forward individual proposals in London | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Free Schools Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5030 | 799897 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5035 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Not available | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Free Schools Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5030 | 0 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5036 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | The Academies Brokering DD post is responsible for: 1. Identifying and agreeing new Academies in place of underperforming schools. 2. Identifying new Academy sponsors and working with existing sponsors to identify new Academy projects. 3. Policy and systems for approving organisations to sponsor Academies and matching sponsors to projects. | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Free Schools Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5030 | 949243 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5040 | Sarah Healey | SCS2 | Director | Responsible for funding for schools (both capital and revenue) and all related policy issues. Specifically responsible for the implementation of the pupil premium and a new approach to capital investment arising from the independent review of capital. | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Post 16 YPLA Resource Group/School Resources Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5001 | 189850 | 1 | 80000 | 84999 | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5041 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Divisional Manager responsible for Funding and Finance within Resources Group (Schools) | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD School Resources Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5040 | 0 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5042 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | The Unit is responsible for the overall school revenue funding system; including the legal and regulatory framework; the allocation of grants to local authorities and the arrangements by which local authorities fund schools; the payment of grants for education and children's services to local authorities; the monitoring of expenditure; and supporting schools in improving financial management; efficiency and value for money. | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD School Resources Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5040 | 813324 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5043 | Dugald Sandeman | SCS2 | Director | Responsible for the overall school revenue funding system including: the pupil premium; the legal and regulatory framework; allocation of grants to local authorities and the arrangements by which local authorities fund schools; payment of grants for education and children's services to local authorities; monitoring of expenditure; and supporting schools in improving financial management; efficiency and value for money. | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD School Resources Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5040 | 0 | 1 | 85000 | 89999 | Not set | Policy | Job share | 1 |
| DfE-5043 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Deputy Director working in Schools Resources Group on school funding | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD School Resources Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5040 | 0 | 0.6 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Job share | 1 |
| DfE-5044 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for oversight of and advice to Ministers on all DfE capital expenditure (including on early years, schools, post-16 education and youth facilities). Sponsor Division for Partnerships for Schools, the NDPB which plays a major role in the delivery of DfE's capital programmes and in the distribution of funds to local authorities. Responsibility for policy on basic need, maintenance and the Building Schools for the Future programme, as well as legislation on school premises, playing fields and health & safety issues related to school buildings. Responsible for the review of DfE capital expenditure and for putting its recommendations into practice. | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD School Resources Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5040 | 462682 | 0.75 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Job share | 1 |
| DfE-5044 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for oversight of and advice to Ministers on all DfE capital expenditure (including on early years, schools, post-16 education and youth facilities). Sponsor Division for Partnerships for Schools, the NDPB which plays a major role in the delivery of DfE's capital programmes and in the distribution of funds to local authorities. Responsibility for policy on basic need, maintenance and the Building Schools for the Future programme, as well as legislation on school premises, playing fields and health & safety issues related to school buildings. Responsible for the review of DfE capital expenditure and for putting its recommendations into practice. | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD School Resources Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5040 | 333789 | 0.8 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Job share | 1 |
| DfE-5045 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | On secondment | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD School Resources Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5040 | 0 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | on secondment | 1 |
| DfE-5050 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | This post provides analysis and evidence to all IFD, leading professional analysts from four disciplines (economists / statistician / social researchers / operational researchers). On education funding, this includes financial modelling to allocate funding to LAs for maintained schools and to calculate the budgets for individual Academies. Additionally we develop funding methodologies (e.g. Pupil Premium, Fair Funding Formula), and monitor how this funding is budgeted and actually spent. A similar role exists for post-16 learning routes. We provide statistical analysis to project and plan the rate of Academies expansion, report on Academies’ educational standards and generate performance indicators for IFD. We articulate the economic rationale for policy reform and explain the value for money in ministerial recommendations. Finally, we provide research evidence review and synthesis, policy evaluation and produce and analyse the Department’s longitudinal data on the lives of young people. | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD YPD YP Analysis Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5001 | 1357635 | 0.7 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Operational Research | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5061 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for the 14-19 Group Finance / Finance and Challenge teams managing the interface with YPLA on c£8billion 16-19 funding. Functions include: 1. Ensure accuracy/challenge of directorate spending / budgets / forecasts / profiling. 2. Deliver monthly accounts requirements as set out by Central finance. 3. Consider / challenge / approve all revenue and capital proposals with financial implications including submissions. 4. Prepare and provide monthly reports to SMT and guidance to DG and SMT. 5. Lead on directorate SR process. 6. Provide governance and Value for Money (VFM) support to SMT/DG. 7. Hold YPLA to financial account | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Post 16 YPLA Resource Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5040 | 755689 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-5062 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | Responsible for: developing 16-19 funding policy including action to simplify the formula, structures and processes and increasing alignment with pre-16 and post-19 systems; sponsorship of the Sixth Form College sector; policy on 16-19 capital funding; and relationship management of the YPLA and creation of the Education Funding Agency. | Department for Education | Department for Education | IFD Post 16 YPLA Resource Group | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-5040 | 496126 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Policy | Not set | 1 |
| DfE-6001 | N/D | SCS1 | Deputy Director | The Head of Internal Audit leads a team of professionally trained auditors - reporting to the Accounting Officer on the effectiveness of risk management and control in the Department. This is through specific audit reports on particular areas and periodic reports on the overall levels of Departmental compliance. In addition work is also undertaken on an ad hoc basis to provide advice/support and investigation services as required. The Unit also provides Secretariat services to the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee and provides a liaison function with Heads of Internal Audit and Audit Committee Chairs across the Departments' NDPBs. | Department for Education | Department for Education | Internal Audit | 0370 000 2288 | N/D | DfE-1001 | 1172132 | 1 | N/D | Not set | Not set | Internal Audit | Not set | 1 |