The Department for Education has finally confirmed the briefs of its new ministers, almost two weeks after the reshuffle that saw Nick Gibb, Robert Halfon and Gillian Keegan return to the team. As expected, Gibb has returned to the schools brief, though he is now simply known as minister of state for schools, not school standards minister, which was his brief until last year and then held by successors Robin Walker, Will Quince and Jonathan Gullis. Claire Coutinho is a junior minister for children, families and wellbeing. This replaces the schools and childhood brief held by her predecessor Kelly Tolhurst. Baroness Barran, the academies minister, also has a different official title. She is now minister for the school system and student finance. Halfon is minister of state for skills, apprenticeships and higher education, a bigger brief than the one he held at the department between 2016 and 2017, when he was just minister for apprenticeships and skills. In a further sign that Liz Truss’s plan to lift the ban on new grammar schools is dead in the water, the word “selection”, which previously appeared in Tolhurst’s brief, is nowhere to be seen. Gillian Keegan, education secretary Early years and childcare Children’s social care Teacher quality, recruitment and retention The school curriculum School improvement Academies and free schools Further education Apprenticeships and skills Higher education Nick Gibb, schools minister School accountability and inspection (including links with Ofsted) Standards and Testing Agency and primary assessment Supporting a high-quality teaching profession including professional development Supporting recruitment and retention of teachers and school leaders including initial teacher training Teaching Regulation Agency National Tutoring Programme School revenue funding, including the national funding formula for schools Pupil premium School food, including free school meals Qualifications (including links with Ofqual) Curriculum including relationships, sex, and health education and personal, social, health and economic education Behaviour, attendance and exclusions School sport Digital strategy and technology in education (EdTech) Admissions and school transport Baroness Barran, academies minister Regulatory review and overall approach to academisation Intervention in underperforming schools and school improvement Academies and multi-academy trusts School governance Education Investment Areas Free schools Faith schools Independent schools School capital investment (including pupil place planning) School efficiency and commercial policy Departmental data strategy Student finance (including the Student Loans Company) Safeguarding in schools and post-16 settings Counter extremism in schools and post-16 settings Home education and supplementary schools Departmental efficiency and commercial policy Claire Coutinho, children’s minister Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), including high needs funding Alternative provision Children’s social care Children in care, children in need and child protection Adoption and care leavers Early years and childcare Family hubs and early childhood support Disadvantaged and vulnerable children Children and young people’s mental health Policy to protect against serious violence Freedom of speech in education Online safety and preventing bullying in schools Robert Halfon, skills and higher education minister Overall strategy for post-16 technical education T-levels and transition programme Qualifications reviews (levels 3 and below) Higher technical education (levels 4 and 5) Apprenticeships and traineeships Further education workforce and funding Institutes of Technology Local skills improvement plans and Local Skills Improvement Fund Adult education, including basic skills, the National Skills Fund and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund Careers education, information and guidance including the Careers and Enterprise Company Technical education in specialist schools Relationship with the Office for Students Higher education quality and reform Lifelong Loan Entitlement Student experience and widening participation in higher education Funding for education and training, provision and outcomes for 16- to 19-year-olds College governance and accountability Intervention and financial oversight of further education colleges Reducing the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training International education strategy and the Turing Scheme