The Education and Justice Directorates are a group of directorates of the Scottish Government. The Director General for Education and Justice is Neil Rennick, who was appointed to the role in September 2023. He has direct responsibility for education in Scotland, as well as for life-long learning. Additionally, the directorate holds responsibility for safety and the justice system. The Director-General Education and Justice is a member of the Scottish Government's Corporate Governance Board. The individual directorates report to the Director-General.
History
The directorates were created by a re-organisation in 2011. The directorates were preceded by similar structures called "Departments" that no longer exist (although the word is still sometimes used in this context). As an overarching family of Directorates, the Learning and Justice Directorates incorporate the following individual Directorates:
Current Directorates
The Education and Justice Directorates currently consist of the following directorates:
↑"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."
