1 / 11

Government Offices: Structures and Roles

Government Offices: Structures and Roles. Role of GOs. Government Offices overall purpose is to work with national, regional and local partners to deliver central Government’s aims in the region: to achieve high and stable levels of growth and employment,

millie
Download Presentation

Government Offices: Structures and Roles

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Government Offices: Structures and Roles

  2. Role of GOs • Government Offices overall purpose is to work with national, regional and local partners to deliver central Government’s aims in the region: • to achieve high and stable levels of growth and employment, • to build a safe, inclusive and prosperous society that can develop in a sustainable way.

  3. GOs represent ten central Government Departments • Department for Education and Skills • Department of Health • Department for Communities and Local Government • Department of Trade and Industry • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs • Home Office • The Cabinet Office • Department for Culture, Media and Sport • Department for Work and Pensions • Department for Transport

  4. New Government Office Objectives, Roles and Functions Diagram taken from Review of Government Offices March 2006, Office for the Deputy Prime Minister, hm-treasury.gov.uk

  5. As far as the GO Children and Learners function is concerned, the DfES has identified four high level roles: • driving implementation of strategic change and new policy directions • ensuring effective management of programmes • supporting performance improvement • providing regional input to national policies and developing policies.

  6. Regional Priorities for Children and Learners Policy Team • Teenage Pregnancy • Obesity • Looked After Children • Special Education Needs • Attendance and Behaviour Exclusions • Attainment • Young People in NEET • 14-19 Post-16 Progression • Developing the infrastructure to support children and young people

  7. Regional Director Jane Todd Deputy Regional Director Roger Poole

More Related