Ofsted and Department for Education staff redeployed for Brexit planning
Civil servants from Ofsted have been redeployed to help prepare for a no-deal Brexit with more staff set to follow, it has been reported this week.
Schools Week has reported that the department has been looking at what schools will do if food supplies run low, and how food will be transported between sites if fuel runs low.
The Education Secretary, Damian Hinds, addressed the impact of Brexit on the Department for Education at an accountability hearing before the Education Select Committee on Wednesday, the day after Parliament rejected the Government’s Brexit deal.
Mr Hinds said the temporary shift of civil servants from the DfE was “the reality of no deal”, but insisted that the department had planned for “everything that is reasonably possible for us to plan for”.
He told the committee that ensuring the Government could collectively continue to deliver “truly mission critical” functions involved departments “like ours being asked who, if needed, we could release on a temporary basis to support others”.
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