Learning and Justice Directorates
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The Scottish Government Learning and Justice Directorates are a group of civil service Directorates in the Scottish Government created by a December 2010 re-organisation.[1]
The individual directorates within the overarching Learning and Justice Directorates report to the Acting Director-General, Paul Johnston.[2]
Ministers
There is no direct relationship between Ministers and the Directorates. However, the activities of the Directorates include those under the purview of the Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Michael Matheson MSP and the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Angela Constance MSP.
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).[3] As an overarching unit, the Learning and Justice Directorates incorporate the following individual Directorates:
- Children and Families Directorate - Director: Olivia Mcleod
- Education Analytical Services Directorate - Deputy Director: Audrey MacDougall
- Advanced Learning and Science - Director: Aileen McKechnie
- Fair Work - Acting Director - Joe Griffin
- Learning Directorate - Director: Fiona Robertson
- Justice Directorate - Acting Director: Neil Rennick
- Safer Communities Directorate - Director: Paul Johnston
Agencies and other bodies
The Directorates are responsible for various non-departmental public bodies.
References
- ↑ "Paul Gray, Director-General Rural Affairs, Environment and Services". Scottish Government. Retrieved 7 May 2011. This notice refers to the transfer of the DG of the Scottish Government Environment Directorates in December 2010, and thus indirectly to this re-organisation.
- ↑ "Directorates". Scottish Government. 23 June 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
- ↑ "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 Cabinet's agenda. The new structure means that the old Scottish Executive Departments no longer exist. Instead, each DG supports and manages a number of Directors, with these Directorates leading, presenting and developing policy for Ministers."