The Department for Children, Schools and Families is committed to achieving its workforce reduction target, shared with the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills, by the end of 2007/08. This is a net target and no posts will be reallocated to the frontline as part of it.
The following table sets out how many men and women are employed in each civil service grade in my Department:
Grade (a) Men (b) Women Total Support Grade Band 1 9 6 15 Support Grade Band 2 35 11 46 Executive Assistant (EA)1 106 299 405 Executive Officer (EO) and equivalents 220 426 646 Higher Executive Officer (HEO) and equivalents 288 353 641 Senior Executive Officer (SEO) and equivalents 200 242 442 Grade 7 and equivalents 230 242 472 Grade 6 76 73 149 Senior Civil Service (SCS) 60 47 107 DCSF total 1,224 1,699 2,923 1 The Department for Children, Schools and Families has recently merged the Administrative Assistant (AA) and Administrative Officer (AO) Civil Service grades into an Executive Assistant (EA) role.