Ms Keegan follows Kit Malthouse, James Cleverly, Michelle Donelan, and Nadhim Zahawi, who have all held the role since the start of July.
She was previously minister of state for care at the Department of Health and Social Car Care from September 2021 to September 2022. She was previously Minister of State for Care at the Department of Health and Social Care between 16 September 2021 and 7 September 2022. Chichester MP Gillian Keegan has been appointed as the new education secretary, Downing Street has confirmed.
Gillian Keegan has become the fifth education secretary in four months after being appointed to the role by new prime minister Rishi Sunak today.
Schools and colleges deserve stable political leadership which addresses the crucial issues of inadequate funding and severe staff shortages caused by a government which has undervalued the workforce and sapped its morale.” It is a vital public service. Gillian Keegan appointed as new education secretary
Gillian Keegan becomes the fifth education secretary in four months, a situation denounced as “farcical” by unions.
Special educational needs and disability funding is an issue “close to my heart” she said previously, as the aunt of someone with Down’s syndrome. “We welcome Gillian Keegan to the position of education secretary,” she said. “They are, staggeringly, the 10th education secretary in 12 years… Welcoming Keegan to her new post, he said: “This revolving door shows a complete disregard for the importance of what should be a key government post and it must stop. The low priority given to the education of the nation’s children and young people and the low regard in which this government holds teachers and support staff has to stop – Dr Mary Bousted, NEU It is a vital public service.