Media enquiries
Contact information for the Department for Education’s media team.
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.
Deputy Director of News and Social Media
Andrew Darby
Deputy Head of News
Jayne Roberts
Press Secretary to the Secretary of State for Education
Sam Glanz
The rebuttals team
Chief Media Officer
Ellie Agnew
Senior Media Officer
Hollie Borland
Media officers
Sophie Hood
Susannah Finlay
Schools
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
- pupil premium
- 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
- school sport
Chief Media Officer
Rebecca Tyers
Senior Media Officers
Alice Parker
Florence Williamson
Media Officers
Charlotte Callear
Emine Tarim
Emma Parker
Molly Holt
Children and families (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
- children’s social services
- social care, child protection and social work policy
- early years education and childcare policy
- SEND policy
- exclusions and alternative provision
- mental health, wellbeing, bullying
- relationships, sex and health education
- personal, social, health and economic education
Chief Media Officer
Josh Kaye
Senior Media Officer
Monica Wilson
Media Officers
Abigail Arnold
Adam Collins
Ana Scanlan
Post 16 and skills
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
- higher education student finance
- widening participation in higher education
- quality of higher education
- international education
Chief Media Officer
Eva Perkins
Senior Media Officers
Lewis Evans
Fran Golinski Drinkwater
Media Officers
Andrew Bottone
Laurelle Marfleet
Assistant Media Officer
Lizzie Wilkin
Strategy and planning desk
Strategy and Planning Lead
Russell Neilson
Strategic Communications Planning Manager
Sima Parmar
Strategic Communications Planning Officer
Sophie Burke
Executive agencies
DfE’s media team handles media enquiries on behalf of our executive agencies:
- Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA)
- Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA)
- Standards and Testing Agency (STA)
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.