The Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families was a secretary of state in the

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, responsible for the work of the

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. The post was created on 28 June 2007 after the disbanding of the Department for Education and Skills by

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. The only Secretary of State with this title was

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, a former treasury aide to Brown. He was 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

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from the Department for Education and Skills, with the

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being responsible for education after that age. Other responsibilities included inputs into the Government's strategy for ending child poverty, with the

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and into promoting the health of all children by working with the

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. The corresponding shadow minister was the Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, and the Secretary of State was also scrutinised by the

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. On 12 May 2010, the Department was again renamed and

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was appointed

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Secretary of State

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