The Skills England Bill. Skills England will be created to support economic growth by bringing greater coherence to the assessment of skills needs and training landscape. It will convene the relevant stakeholders to develop a single picture of skills needs, ensure national and regional skills systems are aligned, and identify the training to be funded under the Growth and Skills Levy. It is expected it will take on several of the functions the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.

The Children’s Wellbeing Bill covers a number of changes to education and social care including ensuring greater consistency between academies and maintained schools by requiring all schools to teach the national curriculum. This will start after the review of curriculum and assessment is concluded and is reflected in programmes of study. It will ensure any new teacher entering the classroom has, or is working towards, Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), and will bring multi-academy trusts into the inspection system.

The English Devolution Bill will establish a new framework for English devolution. It will put a standardised devolution framework into legislation to give local leaders greater powers over the levers of local growth, and make devolution the default setting meaning places will be granted powers without the need to negotiate agreements where they meet governance conditioning. It will make it easier to provide devolved powers quickly to more areas by establishing a simpler process for creating new Combined and Combined County Authorities.