Department for Education – Media enquiries
DfE media team
Journalists should call our central newsdesk on 020 7783 8300. This media-only line operates from Monday to Friday, 8am to 7pm. Outside of these hours the number will divert to the duty media officer.
Members of the public should call our general enquiries line on 0370 000 2288.
Read our Education in the media blog.
Andrew Darby
Jayne Roberts
Press Secretary to the Secretary of State for Education
Steven Bourner
The Rebuttals Team
Chief Media Officer
Mike Murphy-Pyle
Senior Media Officer
Aaron Shardey
Media officer
Sophie Hood
Schools desk
Government policy on:
schools (including free schools, university technical colleges and studio schools, academies and multi-academy trusts, faith and independent schools)
education recovery, including tutoring and summer schools
recruitment and retention of teachers and school leaders
Teaching Regulation Agency
school funding
behaviour
period products
curriculum and qualifications (including links with Ofqual)
Standards and Testing Agency and primary assessment
school accountability and inspection (including links with Ofsted)
careers education, information and guidance including the Careers and Enterprise Company
home education and supplementary schools
counter extremism and integration in schools
Chief Media Officer
Sam Glanz
Senior Media Officers
Josh Kaye
Florence Williamson
Alice Parker
Media Officers
Rachael Langley
Justina Crabtree
Emine Tarim
Safety and wellbeing (early years, special educational needs and disability (SEND), vulnerable and disadvantaged children)
Government policy on:
free school meals, Holiday Activities and Food programme and breakfast clubs
Pupil Premium
children’s social services
social care, child protection and social work policy
early years education and childcare policy
SEND policy
exclusions and alternative provision
school sport
mental health, wellbeing, bullying
Opportunity Areas programme
relationships, sex and health education
personal, social, health and economic education
Chief Media Officer
Amy Taylor
Senior Media Officer
Monica Wilson
Officers
Sarrah Qureshi
Further education, skills and apprenticeships desk
Government policy on:
technical education and skills including T Levels and qualifications review
apprenticeships including traineeships
further education workforce
strategy for post-16 education (jointly with Minister of State for Universities)
further education provider market including quality and improvement and further education efficiency
adult education, including the National Retraining Scheme and basic skills
Institutes of Technology and National Colleges
reducing the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training
Chief Media Officer
Eva Perkins
Senior Media Officer
Lewis Evans
Media Officer
Connor Dorrell-Shepherd
Universities and higher education desk
Government policy on universities and higher education including:
higher education student finance
widening participation in higher education
quality of higher education
international education
Chief Media Officer
Rebecca Tyers
Senior Media Officer
Stephen Donnelly
Media Officer
Andrew Bottone
Strategy and planning desk
Strategy and Planning Lead
Russell Neilson
Strategic Communications Planning Manager
Sima Parmar
Strategic Communications Planning Officers
Sophie Burke
Amy Doyle
Executive agencies
DfE’s media team handles media enquiries on behalf of our executive agencies:
Non-departmental public bodies
If you have a specific enquiry about a policy that is managed by a non-departmental public body, you should contact the relevant body’s press office.
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