Sorting out the crisis in special educational needs (SEND) provision and funding is a “first-order issue” for the new government, experts have said. Sir...
Catherine McKinnell is the new schools minister, one of her Department for Education colleagues has confirmed. The MP for Newcastle North was appointed to...
Stephen Morgan, the former shadow schools minister, and fellow Labour MP Janet Daby have joined the ministerial team at the Department for Education. Stephen...
Damian Hinds, the former education secretary and schools minister, has been named shadow education secretary in Rishi Sunak’s caretaker opposition team. The new shadow...
There are no “quick and easy solutions” to the “major challenges” facing education, Bridget Phillipson has warned in her first message to school staff....
Former schools minister and home secretary Jacqui Smith has joined Bridget Phillipson’s ministerial team at the Department for Education. The former Labour MP, pictured...
New education secretary Bridget Phillipson told Department for Education staff she’s in the “greatest job in government”, but warned of the “scale of the...