The Scottish Government Education and Justice Directorates are a group of

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Directorates in the Scottish Government created by a re-organisation. The individual directorates within the overarching Education and Justice Directorates report to the Director-General, Joe Griffin.

Ministers

There is a direct relationship between Ministers and the Education and Justice Directorates, although this direct relationship varies across the Government as some DGs do not directly read across to Ministerial portfolios. The activities of the Directorates include those under the purview of the

Cabinet Secretary for Justice The Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans, commonly referred to as the Justice Secretary, is a position in the Scottish Government Cabinet. The Cabinet Secretary has overall responsibility for law and order in Scotland. The Cabinet Secreta ...

, Keith Brown MSP and the

Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, commonly referred to as the Education Secretary, is a position in the Scottish Government Cabinet responsible for all levels of education in Scotland. The Cabinet Secretary is supported by the M ...

, Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP. They are assisted in this work by the

Minister for Community Safety The Minister for Community Safety is a Junior ministerial post in the Scottish Government. As a result, the minister does not attend the Scottish Cabinet. The post was created in May 1999 during the 1st Scottish Parliament as the ''Deputy Minist ...

, the Minister for Children and Young People and the Minister for Higher Education, Further Education, Youth Employment and Training.

Directorates

The overarching Scottish Government Directorates were preceded by similar structures called "Departments" that no longer exist (although the word is still sometimes used in this context)."Reporting on 100 Days: Moving Scotland forward"
Scottish Government. Retrieved 15 August 2009. "A new structure for Scotland's Government has been put in place, transforming the Departmental structure, moving from 9 Heads of Department, to a Strategic Board with the Permanent Secretary and five Directors General (DG), with each DG having responsibility for driving one of the Government's strategic objectives. Directors-General focus on the performance of the whole organisation against the Government's purpose. The new structure means that the old Scottish Executive Departments no longer exist. Instead, each DG supports and manages a number of Directorates headed by a Director with these Directorates leading, presenting and developing policy for Ministers." As an overarching family of Directorates, the Learning and Justice Directorates incorporate the following individual Directorates: * Advanced Learning and Science Directorate * Children and Families Directorate * Early Learning and Childcare Directorate * Justice Directorate * Learning Directorate * Safer Communities Directorate

Agencies and other bodies

The Directorates are responsible for various

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Education Scotland Education Scotland ( gd, Foghlam Alba) is an executive agency of the Scottish Government, tasked with improving the quality of the country's education system. Origins The creation of the Agency was announced by Scottish Government Education a ...

Registers of Scotland Registers of Scotland (RoS) is the non-ministerial department of the Scottish Government responsible for compiling and maintaining records relating to property and other legal documents. They currently maintain 20 public registers. The official re ...

Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service , type = , seal = , logo = 250px , logo_caption = , formed = , jurisdiction = Scotland , headquarters = Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive, Edinburgh EH11 3XD , employees = 1,374 , budget = £129.3 million (2015-2016) , chief1_name = Lor ...

* Scottish Prison Service *

Scottish Housing Regulator The Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) is an independent Non-Ministerial Department, directly accountable to the Scottish Parliament. The body was established on 1 April 2011 under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010. SHR is the successor to the prev ...

* Student Awards Agency for Scotland

References

External links

Directorates
on Scottish Government website {{Scottish Government Directorates Directorates of the Scottish Government 2010 establishments in Scotland 2010 in British politics

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