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
Caroline Rae
Press Secretary to the Secretary of State for Education
Sam Glanz
Corporate and cross-cutting communications team
Chief Media Officer
Ellie Agnew
Senior Media Officer
Hollie Borland
Media officer
Susannah Finlay
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
- pupil premium
- the recruitment and retention of teachers and school leaders
- Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA)
- school funding
- behaviour
- period products
- curriculum and qualifications (including links with Ofqual)
- the Standards and Testing Agency (STA) 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
Eva Perkins
Senior Media Officers
Emine Tarim
Florence Williamson
Media Officers
Holly Bullen
Alana Christian
Molly Holt
Lizzie Wilkin
Children and families desk
Government policy on:
- free school meals, the holiday activities and food programme, and breakfast clubs
- children’s social services
- social care, child protection and social work
- early years education and childcare
- special educational needs and disability (SEND)
- exclusions and alternative provision
- mental health, wellbeing and bullying
- vulnerable and disadvantaged children
- relationships, sex and health education
- personal, social, health and economic education
Chief Media Officer
Josh Kaye
Senior Media Officers
Charlotte Callear
Fran Golinski Drinkwater
Media Officers
Holly Bullen
Celia Cox
Georgia Cronin
Post-16 and skills 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
- 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
Alan Selby
Senior Media Officer
Lewis Evans
Media Officers
Laurelle Marfleet
George Neophytou
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, contact that body’s press office.