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2 unusual facts about Department for Children, Schools and Families


DCFS

Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), British government department responsible for all issues affecting people up to the age of 19 including child protection and education

Lucy Beale

A 2008 report commissioned by the Department for Children, Schools and Families advised parents to use fictional characters and storylines to engage their children in conversation about sexual intercourse and relationships, using Lucy and her plans to have underage sexual intercourse as an example.


Department for Children, Schools and Families

Charlie Brooker, writing in the Guardian, has expressed incredulity that the Department for Children, Schools and Families is supportive of Brain Gym, despite its broad condemnation by scientific organisations, and despite it being apparently nonsense.

Iain Wright

Iain David Wright (born 9 May 1972) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hartlepool since 2004, and was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for apprenticeships and 14-19 reform in the Department for Children, Schools and Families until 11 May 2010.

Kate Bellingham

She is the DCSF's STEM Careers Champion (NSCC), and is Education Ambassador for the Bloodhound Engineering Adventure, which plans to break the world land speed record.

Lima Publishing

At the conference, Jim Knight MP, Department for Children, Schools and Families, together with Stephen Crowne, Chief Executive of Becta, launched the revised government strategy ‘Harnessing Technology 2008: Next Generation Learning 2008-14’.


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