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, News and Corporate Communications
James Cox
Head of Media
Michael Goldstein
Schools desk
Government policy on:
- schools (including free schools, university technical colleges and studio schools, academies and multi-academy trusts, faith and independent schools)
- recruitment and retention of teachers and school leaders
- Teaching Regulation Agency
- school funding
- behaviour
- relationships, sex, and health education; and personal, social, health and economic education
- 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
Jayne Roberts
Senior Media Officers
Michael Murphy-Pyle
Sam Glanz
Josh Kaye
Media Officers
Peter Preston
Lauren Carpenter
Shannyn Quinn
Rachael Langley
Early years, Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) and vulnerable children
Government policy on:
- free school meals and breakfast clubs
- children’s social services and care
- all early years policy
- special educational needs [and disabilities]
- exclusions and alternative provision
- school sport and holiday activities
- mental health, wellbeing, bullying
- Opportunity Areas programme
Chief Media Officer
Amy Taylor
Senior Media Officer
Rebecca Tyers
Officers
Priscilla Krahn
James Nickerson
Maeve McAlister
Opportunity Areas communications managers
Lesley Richardson
Ian Gardiner
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
Holly Eastman
Media Officers
Porsha Nunes–Brown
Dominique Vincent
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
Steven Bourner
Senior Media Officer
Holly Manj
Media officers
Robyn Meadwell
Bethany Vaughan
Strategic Communications Planning Manager
Sima Parmar
Strategic Communications Planning Officer
Ellis Clarke
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.