{"id":116912,"date":"2025-09-05T18:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/116912\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T18:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:19:11","slug":"skills-brief-to-move-out-of-dfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/116912\/","title":{"rendered":"Skills brief to move out of DfE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"show-for-medium\">New &#8216;growth department&#8217; expected to be created following Keir Starmer&#8217;s reshuffle<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-for-medium\">New &#8216;growth department&#8217; expected to be created following Keir Starmer&#8217;s reshuffle<\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"54\" height=\"54\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Billy-Camden-2024-square-54x54.jpg\" class=\"attachment-writer-small size-writer-small\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"   title=\"Billy-Camden-2024-square | FE Week\"\/>            <\/p>\n<p>                <img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"800\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Dfe-angle-feat.jpg\" class=\"attachment-story-heading size-story-heading wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"   title=\"Dfe-angle-feat | FE Week\"\/>                <\/p>\n<p>            More from this theme<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                                                                                                                    Recent articles<\/p>\n<p>The government is planning to pull the skills brief out of the Department for Education and move it to a new department. <\/p>\n<p>Prime minister Keir Starmer is understood to be moving the skills brief to the Department for Work and Pensions, under a new secretary of state, Pat McFadden. <\/p>\n<p>This brings to an end nearly a decade during which policy for education and skills was managed together under one government department. <\/p>\n<p>A new reported \u2018growth department\u2019 will be formed from the current Department for Work and Pensions and will include skills.<\/p>\n<p>Pat McFadden, formerly of the Cabinet Office, moved jobs in today\u2019s cabinet reshuffle following the resignation of Angela Rayner.<\/p>\n<p>It is not yet known whether skills minister Jacqui Smith will continue in the role, or whether 16-19 education, universities or apprenticeships will be moved.<\/p>\n<p>Education secretary Bridget Phillipson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-for-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">remains<\/a> in post. Liz Kendall, who was work and pensions secretary, has been appointed secretary of state for science, innovation and technology.<\/p>\n<p>Skills is no stranger to being bumped around government departments. <\/p>\n<p>Government policy for employment and skills last sat together between 1995 and 2001 at the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE).<\/p>\n<p>Then the last Labour government split DfEE, creating a Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and a Department for Work and Pensions.<\/p>\n<p>Skills was moved to a Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) in 2007 until 2009 when it went to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). <\/p>\n<p>Then prime minister Theresa May <a href=\"https:\/\/feweek.co.uk\/department-for-education-to-take-on-fe-skills-and-higher-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">moved FE and skills to the DfE<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New &#8216;growth department&#8217; expected to be created following Keir Starmer&#8217;s reshuffle New &#8216;growth department&#8217; expected to be created&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-116912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}