Last month, the School Support Staff Negotiating Body was named in a leaked Government document as one of around 180 quangos due to be axed following the spending review (News, 30 September).
However, the SSSNB was one of eight bodies named as still under review on a Department for Education confirmed list last week.
The Office of the Children's Commissioner, the Children's Workforce Development Council, and the Training and Development Agency were also listed as still under review.
The DfE confirmed that the Teenage Pregnancy Independent Advisory Group and the Teachers TV board of governors would close.
The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), the General Teaching Council for England and the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency have already been told they will close, though some of their essential functions will be taken on by the DfE.
Ofsted, Ofqual and the School Teachers Review Body will be retained.
The School Food Trust is likely to become a community interest company, able to sell its advice, guidance and research to local authorities, schools and others commercially.
Education secretary Michael Gove said, 'There has been a proliferation of arm's-length public bodies in recent years, with 17 across the education and children's sectors alone. These organisations are expensive and by removing responsibility from ministers and handing it to unelected officials, they reduce accountability. These organisations have done much valuable work, but I believe there are too many of them.'
