Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families
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Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families
Incumbent: Ed Balls MP Took office: 28 June 2007
Style:	The Right Honourable
Appointed by:	Gordon Brown as Prime Minister
First :	Ed Balls MP
Formation:	28 June 2007

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The Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families is a Cabinet minister in the United Kingdom. The post was created on 28 June 2007 after the disbanding of the Department for Education and Skills by Gordon Brown¹. The current, and first, Secretary of State is Ed Balls, a former treasury aide to Brown². He is head of the Department for Children, Schools and Families responsible for coordinating work across Government relevant to youth justice, the respect agenda and family policy, while also taking over responsibility for education policy up to the age of 19 in England from the Department of Education and Skills, with the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills being responsible for education after that age³. Other responsibilities include input into the Government's strategy for ending child poverty, with the Department of Work and Pensions, and into promoting the health of all children by working with the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

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