The Department for Education (DfE) board provides strategic and operational leadership.
The heads of DfEs groups and the Permanent Secretary meet regularly with the Secretary of State and the ministerial team to discuss DfEs work. The membership also includes 6 non-executive board members.
Earlier summaries are available on the National Archives:
Added 'Board meeting: 7 December 2023'.
Added 'Board meeting: 10 July 2023' and 'Board meeting: 21 September 2023'.
Added 'Board meeting: 10 May 2023' and 'Board meeting 15 June 2023'.
Added 'Board meeting: 8 February 2023' and 'Board meeting: 16 March 2023'.
Added 'Board meeting: 22 October 2020', 'Board meeting: 16 March 2021', 'Board meeting: 13 May 2021', 'Board meeting: 19 July 2021', 'Board meeting: 2 September 2021', 'Board meeting: 18 November 2021', 'Board meeting: 13 January 2022', 'Board meeting: 10 March 2022', 'Board meeting: 24 May 2022', 'Board meeting: 16 June 2022', 'Board meeting: 14 September 2022', 'Board meeting: 29 November 2022'. A link has been added to the National Archives for meeting minutes from June 2015 to February 2018.
Added 'Board meeting: 16 July 2020'.
Updated the 'Board meeting: 4 June 2020' file with the minutes for June 2020.
Added documents 'Board meeting: 4 June 2020', 'Board meeting: 4 February 2020', 'Board meeting: 16 May 2019', 'Board meeting: 11 February 2019', 'Board meeting: 13 December 2018', 'Board meeting: 11 October 2018' and 'Board meeting: 21 June 2018'.
Added the documents 'Board meeting: 7 November 2017' and 'Board meeting: 6 February 2018'.
Added DfE Board meeting notes for 2017.
First published.