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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.

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DfE media contacts

Head of Communications

Suzy Jenner
Telephone: 020 7783 8300

Head of Media

Hannah Fletcher
Telephone: 020 7783 8718

Newsdesk

Chief Media Officer

Gina Malatesta
Telephone: 020 7783 8300

Senior Media Officer

Eleanor Dwyer
Telephone: 020 7783 8300

Media Officers

Steven Bourner
Juliet Kirk
Candida Lathbridge
Michael Murphy-Pyle
Jessica Ware
Telephone: 020 7783 8300

Schools policy

Chief Media Officer

Sam Eversden
Telephone: 020 7783 8352

Senior Media Officers

Eva Perkins
Telephone: 020 7783 8119

Jayne Roberts
Telephone: 020 7340 7926

Media Officers

Katie Bowman
Telephone: 020 7783 8053

Nazia Dewji
Telephone: 020 7227 5173

Andrew Hamilton
Telephone: 020 7783 8614

Children and families policy

Chief Media Officer

Jade Howard
Telephone: 020 7340 7488

Senior Media Officer

Charlotte Corsan
Telephone: 020 7340 7794

Media Officers

Kitty Dann
Telephone: 020 7340 7190

Sophie Hood
Telephone: 020 7783 8292

Amy Taylor
Telephone: 0207 340 7691

Equalities policy

Chief Media Officer

Jade Howard
Telephone: 020 7340 7488

Senior Media Officer

Chelsea Austin
Telephone: 020 7340 8465

Media Officer

Anna Croall
Telephone: 020 7783 8717

Pippa Kent
Telephone: 020 7227 5132

Higher education and skills policy

Chief Media Officer

Jessica Gearey
Telephone: 0207 783 8573

Senior Media Officer

Lydia Edmonds
Telephone: 020 783 8759

Media officers

Gemma Goodman
Telephone: 020 7227 5169

Nicola O’Neill
Telephone: 0207 340 8093

Media planning

Senior Media Planner

Sima Parmar
Telephone: 020 7227 5181

Media Planner

Michael Greenland
Telephone: 020 7340 8391

Business Manager

Elizabeth Lawson
Telephone: 0207 7838 658

Executive agencies

DfE’s media team handles media enquiries on behalf of our executive agencies, with the exception of SFA:

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: