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At our heart, we are the department for realising potential.
We work to provide children’s services, education and skills training that ensures opportunity is equal for all, no matter background, family circumstances, or need.
We enable children and learners to thrive, by protecting the vulnerable and ensuring the delivery of excellent standards of education, training and care. This helps realise everyone’s potential – and that powers our economy, strengthens society, and increases fairness.
We are a ministerial department supported by 18 agencies and public bodies and non-ministerial departments. Our staff are based at our ministerial offices in London and in a number of other locations around England. We work closely with:
James – HR Apprentice and Reporting Lead
When you join the Civil Service, you will become part of a profession. A profession is a group of individuals with common skills, experience and expertise.
Within these areas there are often ‘Heads of Profession’. These are the people who coach and develop the groups of specialists within a profession. A profession aims to:
Our departments priorities include:
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At DfE, we actively celebrate diversity and inclusion.